Donald Trump thinks he might be able to blame Democrats for his own shutdown. That’s hilarious, and it’s doomed to fail.
The political incentives surrounding a government shutdown can let a tricky, but the principal goal for most partisans is to avoid responsibility for the fiascos. The public tends not to like it when elected officials create self-imposed crises, which is why politicians usually scramble in situations like these to point fingers at their rivals.
As Donald Trump gets ready to shut down the government tonight, he turned to Twitter this morning to dip his toes into the blame-game waters .
No, actually it won’t, and no fair-minded person could possibly take this seriously. Indeed, Americans just last week saw one prominent politician make a compelling case that the president would bear sole responsibility for this mess.
