I don’t know why “for now” means anything. Trump has the ball. And he has 2 years before the next election to wear down the opposition. And he’s going to do the same with opposition to his other agendas. He’s going to wear people down until they get bored, get tired, run out of money, etc. and then do it anyway. And I think anyone who believes he’d back down is an idiot. His game has always been do something provocative, let his enemies vent their spleen until the6 look crazy, then do some slightly less terrible version of what he wants to do.

It works because most ordinary people simply don’t have the wherewithal to continually fight on multiple fronts at all times. And so eventually most of the protestors will accept a symbolic win “yay us, Trump hasn’t declared martial law yet!” Ignoring that his state of emergency allows him to do a lot of tge stuff he wants to do anyway. “Yay! We got some funding through!” But most of it is still cut off and we don’t know for certain if the appeals will go his way. But people have lives to live, bills, kids have baseball games and dance recitals, and damn the Chiefs rock. The media will eventually get over Trump’s being Trump because everyone else is exhausted by it. Who wants to hear about Trump doing something else?