'Why Are They Always So Loyal?' Trump Was Convinced That Dems Would Cave

[DonViejo]

By Kate Riga

January 26, 2019 12:09 pm

President Donald Trump saw his convictions about loyalty upended over the shutdown, harboring shock that Democrats didn’t come over to his side and resentment that he couldn’t keep his own house in order.

According to a Friday Washington Post report, Trump had been operating under the belief that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would be unable to keep her caucus in line as the shutdown progressed.

“Why are they always so loyal?” he reportedly complained in a staff meeting.

Trump also miscalculated the will of his own party, and voiced belated frustration with former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) for having “screwed him” by not securing wall funding when Republicans controlled all branches before he’d “gone fishing.”

Ultimately, the defection of six Republican senators who voted for the Democratic funding bill put Trump over the edge.

Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) dropped the bomb that his members were getting unruly; Trump eventually agreed that the shutdown had to end.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Trump doesn't understand that true loyalty is a two way street...

All he knows are sychophants, whose false loyalty won't survive real tests of character.

[Downtown Hound]

2. He doesn't understand loyalty that comes from the heart and strength of conviction

All he's ever known is the loyalty he can buy or bully his way into getting.

[MaryMagdaline]

5. This.

He does not understand moral convictions.

[LongtimeAZDem]

3. They sound like cats, fighting in the night. But, in the morning, there's more Democrats.

Abraham Lincoln

[MaryMagdaline]

4. Democrats fight within the family but we rally like a family

... and didn’t “Nancy” tell you not to underestimate the strength she brought with her caucus? I mean, she told you.

[JHB]

6. He believed what years of FOX-watching programmed him to believe

Ask Sean about that next time he calls you up to tuck you in and tell you a bedtime story, Donnie.

[Nay]

9. It's as simple as that. He's as feeble-minded as his brainwashed followers. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Always?

He really never pays attention to politics. I think the Democrats finally built a wall that Republicans need to finally contend with.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Chaos and destruction just isn't a good strategy, Donny

Not to mention the namecalling and hatemongering.
Look up 'consensus' in a dictionary.

[backscatter712]

10. Unlike Trump, we have principles.

He demanded we compromise our principles to reopen the government, and we told him to fuck off.

[StatGirl]

11. It's not loyalty, it's unity

It isn't in Trump's worldview that someone could be loyal to a cause higher than a particular strongman leader.

(Why on earth would he think Democrats would come over to him? Was he offering them something that we don't know about?)

[bronxiteforever]

12. The GOP shutdown strategy is done.

It’s dead and pinning for the fiords. It’s interesting to watch the GOP ,after having created a monster with a spray tan, fail to control it. They KNEW the shutdown was a failed strategy but they couldn’t stop their own monster. The monster stomped around and destroyed them. It also shows how incredibly vulnerable McConnell has become. He failed miserably to look out for his members and I hope the Democratic Party in Kentucky takes note.

[c-rational]

13. Because Dems put policy above politics and personality.

[BlueStater]

14. His "negotiating" tactics involve him bullying people until he gets what he wants.

If that fails, the loutish asshole is completely fucking lost.