Trump is full of shutdown contradictions

President Trump blames Democrats, the shutdown and media bias for his party's shellacking last Tuesday.

Why it matters: What he leaves out is his own role in Republicans' election wipeout and the contradictions in his policies and messaging.

It's hard to argue you care about the working class while you're fighting to not fund SNAP payments. • It's hard to argue Democrats are to blame for the shutdown when your party controls all of Congress. • It's hard to argue prices are coming down everywhere when they're obviously going up for coffee, orange juice, ground beef, energy and housing. • It's hard to argue you're fixated on economic angst at home when you spend a lot of time talking about other countries, including on an overseas trip during a domestic shutdown. And then there are t