Tribalism, an insistence on being stupid. being a fool, and hurting Americans.  Dems and Repubs do us no favor allowing Trump to weaponize single crimes against Sanctuary Cities.

The Gov shut down, the withdrawal from Syria, the halving of troop presence in Afghanistan & polarization of troops, and now the pay freeze on all Gov employees. . . then there is the corruption.

Here is the test of Trump and Congress for the Gov shutdown:

  1.  Harming people never works. Some 800,000 federal employees hurt by shutdown.

  2.  The more you blame others, the more the public blames you. We Americans know who shut gov.

  3.  Negotiations are impossible without trust. Who will keep his word, who can be trusted?

  4.  Never negotiate in public. Tweeting and publicly alarming the country will backfire.

  5.  If the president fails, Congress must lead. The Constitution placed the power of the purse in Congress.

The entire issue of the "Wall" and border security could have been avoided by Congress YEARS ago if they had not been so tribal and failed to dot heir job in creating better immigration law.

The solion to reopen the gov is to allow some funding for border security, even if the word "Wal" is used IN EXCHANGE for an agreement acceptable to the Democrats on DACA.