Or...trump could abandon his platform, fail his constituents, and cave in on immigration.

That would ALSO be a failure of leadership.

If you wanna be intentionally glib and say everything is the presidents fault....go ahed, make yourself look foolish. Only a fool would deny that these senators are failing at their jobs.

Trump is damned if he does, damned if he doesnt. So...nice chess moves dems. You can tout your victory to the hundreds of thousands set to be furloughed on monday.

This is now a battle in the press. Both sides assign blame and the partisans on TV try to convince the american people who's right.

In the end though, the dems are demanding a deal for illegal immigrants and they are doing it by holding american citizens hostage. The Trump media machine is spreading that message. Dems are saying...."oooh in 2013 you said nyah nyah myah nyah"

I guess we will see how it plays out