In President's Obama’s first few years as president, he tried negotiating with republicans and the Republicans never reciprocated his efforts at reaching out to them. Instead they did the opposite .
They did the opposite by shutting down the government and threatening to destroy the full faith and financial credit of the Unites States. It wasn't until President Obama refused to negotiate any of the republican's demands that they started losing their fervor for holding the Government hostage.
We have a similar situation now. The difference is that the roles are reversed. The extremist President in the White House is the one threatening to hold the country he leads hostage. It is as if he is not part of the Government and the responsible party at this time are Congressional Democrats.
I think the longer the shutdown goes, the more pressure that Democrats will put on themselves to Give Trump something. In my humble opinion, I think that would be a grave error on the parts of the Democrats. I think the best strategy for Democrats going forward is that they should stop negotiating any terms with the White House.
They should insist that their will be no further negotiations until Trump and Republicans open the Government. In the long run I think this is the best messaging for the Democrats. Democracy is supposed to involve compromise between different interest groups. It is time to break the Republicans penchant for shutting down the Government. If the Democrats cave, they will not only demoralize their supporters, they will also have made it more difficult to do anything on their agenda since Trump will never respect them again and you can bet that Individual 1 will hold the Government hostage in the future and demand more ransom.
Now is the time to put a stop to this craziness that has infected the Republican Party. There should be no further negotiation until the Government is opened.