I’ve been thinking about this all weekend. It seems to me there are several directions this could take, but in general I am not thrilled with the NE.
I wonder if POTUS should have let the re-shutdown happen. He is best at trolling the left, as we saw at the SOTU where he garnered approval by 82% of independents polled simply by extolling the virtues and strengths of America and the importance of preserving liberty from being subsumed by socialism.
That 82% is staggering, really. But I think he loses a bunch of them with this. Not that he drove a stake in the hearts of the socialist perpetrators at the SOTU, but it was a grave wound. The news cycle quickly is healing it, even with AOC and her dumpkof blathering.
Even compromise, and beginning to build barriers in the weakest areas, letting falling crime and safer communities speak for the barriers’ success, might have been a better strategy.
Becky, I’ve thought about it too, and I tend to disagree. (Hey, there’s a first for everything!)
HOW Trump gets the wall done is of little importance to many people. NE, EO, or anything else is really too much inside baseball for most people to get too excited about.
ACTUALLY getting something done (something that Congress has promised since at least 1981 but never had the stones to mean it) will matter to the base and to independents alike.
I’ve been stunned to look at the “independents” in polls about the border, the wall, socialism, infanticide, Medicare for all and other hot issues of the day. The independent voter is really, really close to the conservative side of issue, and not the liberal side. That gives me great hope.