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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
The “both sides are the same!” shtick is edgelord bull**** that empowers the right.
The Democrats could avoid making the "both sides" comparison accurate by not agreeing with Republicans on obviously immoral and unethical policies.
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Originally Posted by Ungoliant
The best case scenario is to give him a token win, really nothing more than an extension of Obama border policies, just enough to allow him to declare victory and weasel out of the corner he backed himself into, while still making him look super weak to anyone who's really paying attention and ensuring that the big beautiful wall he campaigned on never gets built.
Except that's not what will happen. Any win is going to be trumpeted to the sky as Trump being a shrewd negotiator and winning one over the Democrats. The supposed renegotiated NAFTA nonsense has like one change and Trump uses that to prove how amazing he supposedly is in negotiating.
That group that pays attention and will see such a deal for what it is is much smaller than you think. 99% of voters go about their life not thinking deeply about anything related to this. They read headlines while getting coffee and move on with the rest of their day.
Worse yet, Trump will see that threatening a shut down gets him some of what he wants. So, he gets 55 miles the first time he threatens a shut down. Well, what about the next time? And the time after that? And the time after that? If he sees that this works, he'll spam it until he gets his whole wall.
Last edited by SuperUberBob; 02-12-2019 at 05:48 PM.