White House officials, at the start of the shutdown, were certain the Trump administration was better positioned to battle the left during a funding lapse.
In early October, several Trump administration officials had a friendly pool going of how long the shutdown would last. The White House, at the time, was confident Democrats would quickly fold.
No one guessed more than 10 days.
The account, relayed by a person close to the White House granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, underscores just how much the administration miscalculated the Democrats’ will to keep the government closed even amid furloughs and imperiled social programs like food assistance.
As the shutdown heads into its second month, Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated. On Thursday, he called for Republicans to abolish the filibuster to reopen the government — a plea he knows is futile, but that demonstrates his growing irritation with Democrats, said a second person close to the White House.
“Dems suck… republicans also suck but for additional stuff….”
You have how hard a time seeing the both sidesism?
It’s like if someone says republicans suck you generate total blindness…
Yea dude. Because only a fucking idiot would act like the Dems are, as a group, good at their jobs. They’re centre/centre-right and do some pretty shitty things on a regular basis if they do anything of substance at all.
But after all that, they are still the better option and highly preferrable to the Republicans. The Dems are the unseasoned, boiled chicken breast to the Republicans arsenic soup; terrible but edible, at least.
“Both-sides” is when you say both are equally bad and, crucially, ignore the difference of severity. Usually the goal of it is to get people to be apathetic about elections which often leads to conservative wins.