When Nancy Pelosi said that she wishes her coments about President Trump's manhood would not have been Leaked to the public, that is enough for me to realize that she has a personal agenda of of hatred and resistance against the operation of government under Republicans.
I would love to hear the opinion of Paul Ryan on this topic.
I know that Schuyler Colfax would have met with an early grave, had he tried this in 1863 to 1869. But things are different today under what I view is an act to tear this government apart over the next two years.

You stated that Trump had changed peoples minds and people were now blaming Democrats for the shutdown--this in spite of the fact that the latest polls show more people blame Trump and Republicans (41%) than Democrats (36%) with the most important poll showing that more independents blame Trump and Republicans (34%) than Democrats (27%).

As for who would do a better job than Trump--well I would argue that anyone would do a better job than he is doing. For example, he shut down the government because Coulter and Limbaugh lambasted him for caving in on the budget deal. So this shutdown isn't the product of a shrewd negotiator but a man who will kowtow to RW political commentators knowing that a shutdown will please them even though it does incalculable harm to the rest of the country. So does Trump have his own balls or does he have to keep borrowing them from Ann Coulter?

So you are sitting there asking who can do a better job than a man who doesn't even have his own testicles. I am sure the absurdity of such a situation is lost on you but to everyone else, it simply demonstrates the joke that is the Trump presidency.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/21/government-shutdown-2018-polls-blame-353728