Nancy Pelosi has to stop being arrogant and start working with Trump

After 23 days of the US government shutdown there seems to be no way out of the political impasse. It’s no longer about border security or illegal immigration or drug smuggling or countering terrorism or budget approvals. It’s about one thing and one thing only and it had to come to this point at some stage. It’s solely abut Trump. Everything is about Trump. Actually it was pretty well always abut Trump. The Wall was just a symbol of Trumpism. So no wonder there is no way out. Trump is a unique phenomenon in American history. You either love him or hate him. The Democrats hate him ad despise him and think he is not worthy of being president. You never heard Democrats saying that abut President George W Bush or President George HW Bush or President Ronald Reagan. Trump is different. He is the most politically and socially divisive president of the last four decades but also has a firm foundation of committed supporters who want him to honour all the pledges he made in his election campaign and they will not accept or expect failure on the president’s part. So ever since he was elected, this gridlock the US s now suffering was inevitable. If the Democrats deep down respected Trump despite their dislike of him, they might be prepared to consider compromise. But Nancy Pelosi , the Speaker of the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, and Chuck Schumer, the Minority Leader of the Senate, cannot do business with Trump because they have made it abundantly clear they can’t stand him. This is a shocking state of affairs. Both Trump and Pelosi are at fault. Trump, because he believes he has a divine right to do what he wants and hates anyone getting in his way; and Pelosi, because politics is about compromise and it is arrogant of her to say “no” to the president when he simply asked, “Will you provide the money I want for border security?” She knows that The Wall was one of his main election pledges which helped him become president . So as a Democrat she should understand that if democracy is to work in the United States the incumbent president should be allowed to fulfil the mandate which brought him to the White House. I realise in this world that may sound a little naive. But I believe it to be true. So she needs to get off her high horse and think of clever ways of getting round the blockage and coming up with a compromise of some sort. I think if she does produce a solution it will enhance her reputation and the prospects of a Democrat unseating Trump in the 2020 election. But if she remains adamantly opposed to any form of give-and-take relationship with Trump, she will be doomed as Speaker, the Democrats will be doomed in the 2020 election and Trump will win a second term.