Donny Has Defeated Himself
The president, trapped without a decent exit in a predicament of his own making, will yield everything and get nothing.
JAN 8, 2019
David Frum
Staff writer at The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...speech/579850/
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After the January 8 Oval Office address, little doubt remains of how this shutdown will end. Sooner or later—probably sooner—it will end the way Trump’s threats of nuclear war upon North Korea ended: with a sudden Trump about-face. It is now only a matter of time. The polls will arrive over the next hours. Democrats and Republicans will both see that Trump did not move public opinion in his favor. They might see that Trump could not even motivate very many Americans to watch him. The panic slowly building among congressional Republicans will boil. Trump, trapped without a decent exit in a predicament of his own making, will yield everything and get nothing.
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