People who are good at playing the roles of the top of the hierarchy know how to get everyone to support them, including those people on the bottom.
But Trump has not only backed himself into a corner with the shutdown, but his belligerence seems to have inspired a dissipation of the “both sides” impulse in much of the media coverage. Now the majority is not giving him on top the respect it takes for hierarchies to remain strong.
The Republicans and Trump are heading farther out that see saw every day, and its length is definitely not infinite.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-trump-oval-office-shutdown-wall-emergency_us_5c361839e4b05b16bcfcf7b5
