Not just Chuck Todd, now, repeating the line that Republicans like Mick Mulvaney have taken from the start.
Alex Witt is now saying compromise, meeting halfway, and responsible bipartisanship would be the Democrats giving Trump some wall money.
Howard Dean wasn't having any, replying that the compromise is the deal passed by the senate unanimously in December that Bozo rejected and Ryan didn't bring to a house vote, and the president and the Republicans can accept that any time they want.
For that matter, he went on, Congressional Republicans in both houses could join Democrats in again passing just that same deal in numbers sufficient to overcome the president's veto, which senate Republicans did this past December.
Instead, Congressional Republicans are themselves complicit with the president in attempting to force the Democrats into surrender with the shutdown their chosen weapon.
Witt is also speculating in pro-Republican terms that the Democrats may go, in her very words, "hard left" in 2020.
Meanwhile, the successive polls are getting worse for the Duce and the GOP, with each time more people blaming Bozo and them for the shutdown and fewer blaming the Democrats.
I say the Dems could offer wall money only if the public eventually became so enraged at the Duce and the GOP that Trump would not be seen as winning and the Dems would not be seen as surrendering by anyone outside a fraction of Bozo's most looney base.
Instead, the public including most Republicans would see the Dems as rescuing the country from the irresponsible and hateful Trump and the irresponsible and hateful Republicans in the Congress.
At that point, the public and even the Democratic base would see such a rescue as a Democratic victory.
But we are not there and we will likely never get there.
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