The Dom is NOT happy
by digby
Trump negotiated with Pence and Kushner and came up with a “compromise” that includes his wall and promises to hold DACA recipients hostage every three years for more ridiculous racist garbage. As Simon Rosenberg tweeted:
Trump is not going to reopen the government until he gets his immigration bill passed but offers 1) a plan which cannot pass Senate or House or 2) a path which would preclude regular order – no committees, hearings, studies, debate, votes. Process normally takes months.
And to me this is the rub – the President is literally trying to change how our democracy has worked for hundreds of years. He has to do this because his immigration plan can never pass as is, and he needs to break the system to get what he wants.
Debate isn’t really abt immigration/border it’s abt Trump and McConnell conspiring to make Trump something more than a President, an authoritarian, a Mad King. Trump made no concession today. He just changed the terms of his anti-democratic demands.
The people who run America aren’t having it anyway:
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