The GOP is spending far too much time blaming Democrats for a shutdown when they have a majority in Congress. So how is it the Democrats fault?
Trump should show some leadership instead of dividing (shitholes, etc) and maybe he'll get the few votes needed to make up for the members of the GOP team who don't want to vote as their own Party leader wants.
Beyond pathetic. Fortunately for Trump, his base of support are so ignorant that they'll eat up blaming the Democrats.
Trouble is the GOP cannot command a useful and effective majority within their own Party, so the teensy advantage they have in the Senate evaporates time and again. Faced with that, their instinct is to play hardball and threaten to get a couple of cowed Democrats to come over to their side, but with very limited success, since 'their side' is so extreme and far removed from anything even conservative Democrat could sell at home.
It never seems to occur to the Republicans to pick issues and a platform the other half of the country could find some good in and use their muscle to jostle their harder-line buddies into getting stuff done for the good of the Nation.
A recent example being Donny's meeting where he promised on TV he'd have the bi-partisan Congressional delegation work out a plan and he'd approve it "even if he did't like it". But then he let the Freedom caucus dictate to the rest of the Party and to him, so he went back on his word when the delegation did exactly what he asked. Now they're stuck.
Democracy isn't about 'The Majority Wins', that's self-evident. Democracy is about the 'The Minority Are Not Losers', which is the only way you get even close to Everybody Wins.
Unfortunately Trumps' ideal of doing deals is him winning by making everyone else lose, much like 'cleverly' enriching himself through bankruptcy while his unpaid small contractors and suppliers went broke. And he's teaching the Democrats all his tricks and tactics.