The Democrats Intend to Break President Trump On the Wall. He Must Not Let Them.

Democrats don’t just oppose the wall, they want to hurt Trump’s relationship with his base.

In February, Democrats agreed to fund the wall in exchange for a DACA compromise. The President initially agreed, but then walked it back. Just three weeks ago, the President decided to continue funding the government without wall funding until conservative backlash forced him to retreat and threaten to veto the legislation.

The President insisted on at least $5 billion for the wall. Vice President Pence offered Chuck Schumer a compromise of $2.5 billion. Schumer not only rejected it but threw it back in the President’s face at the White House yesterday getting the President to agree it had to be $5 billion minimum.

Since then, the Democrats have taken back control of the House of Representatives and a majority of the Democrat caucus is opposed to any wall. They are also opposed to giving the President anything about which he can brag to his base. As a result, Democrats have hit on a strategy of denying the President the wall and forcing him to yield. They presume that in so doing the President’s base will begin to turn on him and they know they will get a huge PR win for forcing the President to give up the wall around which he built his entire campaign.

I think the Democrats are wrong to think the President’s base will blame him or reject him. They will instead blame congressional Republicans for not having his back, and they’ll blame Democrats for refusing to compromise.

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