Conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens told MSNBC on Thursday President Trump's failure to lead would doom Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans in 2020, saying the president would eventually have to surrender as the British did at the end of the American Revolution.
"McConnell wants to save his caucus, he wants to save his majority," Stephens said, adding that it would be a difficult fight.
"Quite frankly, Donald Trump looks like Cornwallis at Yorktown. He's put himself on the peninsula, he has to stand his ground, and it's not ground he's going to be able to defend easily," he continued, noting that only 35% of Americans support Trump's wall.
"That 35% happens to be a base that sees Trump as their kind of defender, their guy, the guy who isn't going to cave," Stephens pointed out. "Trump is not in a good position to compromise either semantically or substantively without losing his grip on his own political base." As a result, he argued, Trump didn't have enough support "to win this argument" or the 2020 election.
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