for Trump's base if Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer reject the deal completely, without even trying to modify it.

Then, Trump can claim he "won" the PR battle, and Ann Coulter will go back to gushing over how intelligent he was, that even she didn't see how well he could turn the blame for the shutdown to our side so fast and so well. Whether that actually happens or not.

Trump's base, at least the edges that might want to see the shutdown ended, are comforted with "well, he tried something," and can go back to cheering on the shutdown and threatening the GOP Senatorswith being primaried if they utter even a harsh word about Trump and the shutdown. They even got to Mittens these last couple of days.

And in the meantime, uncertainty for DACA beneficiaries and TPS protectees, and no paychecks for 800,000 government workers, while we wait for Trump to completely capitulate out of the goodness of his heart, or some other imaginary reason.

My first thought was, "How has the shutdown affected Carlsbad Caverns?"