Chuck Schumer vows to shut down government over border wall funding — but still blames Republicans
I suppose this is how things will be from now on. When the minority party is out of power in the White House, they will just shut down government to get their way.
Well, you can't be too hard on Chuckie; after all, the Democrats are still trying to decide who they are and what they stand for, so naturally they want to put the country on hold until they work it out.
It's clear what Democrats stand for- power and control. What they are trying to figure out now is what should their collective message be in order to get elected. Look, the the Dems passed BOcare when they controlled congress and not a single person who voted for it read the bill or knew what was in it. But since they were told to vote for it by the "party", they did, Because they are sheep loyal to their party, not principles or ideas. Now that the GOP controls congress they can't even get a bill to vote on. Why? Because they are not loyal to the GOP, and are guided more by their principles and ideas. Dems will win back congress in 4 years, and likely within 2.
Imo, the Republicans will increase their majority in the House in 2018 and most likely at least hold on to the Senate. While the Democrats did march in lockstep for Obama, that was because the Party can't win national elections without overwhelming support from black Americans and whenever anyone opposed Obama too strongly, he or she was accused of racism.
These accusations were so compelling to Democrats in Congress because the Party is no longer a Party of national issues but a Party that shapes its positions on the need to appease certain groups, such as black Americans, Hispanic Americans, people anxious about climate change and other environmental issues and teachers unions. So during the election, Clinton who had historically been a strong opponent of illegal immigration, could only talk about "building bridges not walls" while Trump hammered away at illegal immigration because she was afraid of alienating the Hispanic vote, and many "economic Democrats" abandoned the Party to vote for Trump because of Democratic policies that favored the interests of environmentalists without regard to the damage and hardship they had caused to the families and communities of many of the economic Democrats.
As President Trump continues to work to keep American jobs in America and for Americans, he will keep the support of the former economic Democrats and if he gets his tax package through Congress, it will make it more profitable for most companies to manufacture here in the US than overseas and could lead to a Republican landslide in 2020.