(January 9, 2019 at 12:16 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Simple answer is that Trump is shutting down the government because if he doesn't get his wall, he will have failed to deliver on a key campaign promise, and that will hurt his prospects in the 2020 election. Giving up on the wall would be seen as a betrayal by his base, which he is depending on to re-elect him in 2020. Thus he's between a rock and a hard place.
IOW, he's harming countless people to assuage his butthurt ego.
