No, Compromise is how we mostly all live our lives. You want to watch an action movie, the wife wants to watch a Rom-Com, so some days you watch the Rom-Com. You want Italian, she wants Chinese, so some days you eat Chinese.
The thing was, the GOP used to be a deliberative party acting in a parliamentary fashion. It isn't today, it's become incapable of governing... which is why so little got done even when Trump had the House and the Senate.
Really, I seem to remember the press being pretty fawning over GWB after 9/11.
They really didn't start to seriously question him until we were four years into a war that had lost the plot.
The biggest problem with Trump was the media gave him too much attention. I remember when they would cut away from a speech by Hillary to show an empty Podium waiting for Trump to grace us with his presense. The biggest problem with the news channels is that they are driven by ratings, and who wants to listen to Hillary talk about Education Policy when Trump is ranting about Mexican Rapists!