There is no end in sight to the shutdown; Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will never put a clean continuing resolution on the Senate floor; Senate Republicans will never turn on President Donald Trump.
Each of these assertions fell apart Thursday when McConnell did put a clean CR on the floor (which got more support than the one that included Trump's $5.7 billion for the border wall). Senate Republicans reportedly were at each other's throats by week's end. And boom, the shutdown was over by Friday. Trump suffers a humiliating defeat, which was entirely avoidable had he not been goaded by the hoots and hollers of the right-wing media.