Many Democrats believe the White House is bluffing and insist Republicans will bear responsibility for a shutdown in the public eye because the GOP controls the government.
The Trump administration is expecting a government shutdown come Wednesday and there are no current plans to negotiate with Democratic leadership, according to a senior White House official.
“We’re going to extract maximum pain,” said the official, granted anonymity to discuss political strategy, adding that Democrats “will pay a huge price for this.”
The comments underscore the White House’s belief that Democrats will be blamed for a shutdown and its ripple effects, which could include mass layoffs across the federal government.
Don’t we go though this every time? I could swear “we” settled on “the public blames the party that forced the shutdown” not the party in power.
Seems more like Americans always blame the democrats. It’s like the country just expects the Republicans to be reprehensible pieces of morally bankrupt shit.
It’s like a dysfunctional family. People don’t blame Dad for getting drunk, they blame Aunt Helen for pointing it out and getting him mad.
Pretty much spot on. The problem is that the only way to fight the republicans is with an effective Democratic party. Theres zero hope we could ever change the republican party, but theres some small hope of changing the democrats. Thus people focus on the democrats first.
Actually, the public blames whoever they want, per usual. People like when their party holds out for things they like, and people dislike when the other party holds out for things the don’t like. People believe what they want, when they want, please see someone asking why Obama wasn’t helping more during 9/11 (technically unrelated but my favorite example of people just willing to hate on a dem while just being so verifiably wrong): https://youtube.com/shorts/4v5Yoo9xLyw
Same as people not liking congress, but often liking THEIR congressperson. People don’t care about the facts. Though I believe there’s no real winning move for Dems at the moment. They have completely failed as a party and as an opposition party and if this is where they push back it will result in bad outcomes for their constituents, but they won’t be able to justify those bad outcomes with any actual results.
Every day they delay is one more chance for Trump to stroke out and die before he can go full genocidal dictator. Considering his age and those health rumors I’d say that’s a win.
If trump dies, nothing changes. Do you honestly think that drooling, sniveling shitbag is running anything other than his mouth ?
It doesn’t matter what he does, it matters what people believe he does. To his base Trump is MAGA. Without him I don’t think they have anywhere near the cohesive movement that they do currently.