If he is merely fighting to get his wall built, and has no real desire to take on debt, his run-up to his veto and his post and veto campaign will be largely limited to that issue and its ramifications. If on the other hand, Trump wants to live up to his promise not to sign another continuing resolution, his campaign to the people must necessarily be broader.
He did not run for election on the idea of cutting any entitlements which is the only way the debt and deficits can be brought under control, rather he explicitly said that he would grow the economy out of deficit. In other words, Trump is politician enough to know that a candidate who tells the electorate to eat their spinach is likely to lose to a candidate who invites them to have a double portion of desert.
I favor a showdown on the debt. The Democrats have teed up the issue beautifully for fiscal conservatives with their mindless profligacy over The Green Deal. The deal means spending without end all premised on the assumption that the government can print money without end and, preposterously, without consequences.
A broader approach to the people which the president necessarily must take unavoidably suffers from a likely lack of focus and a likelihood that the central message will be sidetracked by shiny objects. Nevertheless, there are really two ways this country in the near future can be brought down, by wholesale unrestrained illegal immigration and by a debt implosion.
Either catastrophe would inevitably be the path to tyranny because the disruptions caused will give the Democrats the opening their autocratic beating hearts desire, to play the man on horseback to save the country. The stakes are so high, the odds are nearly so, but the risk must be run.
