Instead, they insist they are "compromising" and point to the fact that "everyone is equally unhappy" with how things are going.
This school of politics - "Everyone is angry at me, therefore I am right" - has a name, courtesy of Anat Shenker-Osorio: "Pizzaburger politics." Say half your family wants burgers for dinner and the other half wants pizza: make a pizzaburger and disappoint all of them, and declare yourself to be a politics genius: