The Government is open again, despite the Democrats who closed it trying to keep it that way, which sort of kind of messes with the who shut it down in the first place narrative. It was never Republicans. They didn’t have any demands. No hostages.
And to add insult to injury, Democrats who screamed about things the government does not being funded because of the shutdown (that they blamed on Trump) are now apoplectic over Democrats who shut it down, voting to open it back up.
There is much mental illness in all of that.
But the shutdown is no more. A handful of Democrats in the Senate and a handful in the House voted to reopen it, with a mini-bus added to the clean CR, but it doesn’t give them any of the things they held the government hostage over.
Why did they cave?
Poor people, they claim to support, were being defunded (SNAP), and rich people who donate to them would not be able to fly over the holidays. More importantly, the idea that Republicans shut down the government and it was they who refused to open it was losing traction with Democrats, especially the two groups noted above.
It was never a narrative that would long hold water.
Hey, let’s keep things as they are while we hammer out the new budgets vs. no, tantrum, demands, pouting, screaming, finger pointing, and the longest government shutdown in US history.
Did AOC and her far-left lunatics lose? That remains to be seen, but the AWFLs are not happy as the meme above attests. The more radical left has lost its collective hive mind. How dare you push for, support, and pass a bipartisan agreement to open the government?
And maybe AOC and David Hogg get their way out with the old “mainstream” Dems and in with the new. Pelosi retired, likely to be replaced by some socialist from Team Chaos, and others are on their radar or already in their sights.
A changing of the liberal guard is underway. The socialists have come out from behind the bushes. Young people indoctrinated in public schools and elite universities are convinced it is change they can believe in, but is the rest of America on board?
There’s no stopping the rise of Marxists in blue ghettoes like the San Francisco district Pelosi likely leaves in younger, dumber hands. They will grow their caucus with these seats and seek ways to create more opportunities. But it might mean a smaller, more influential caucus for the long term. These are the people who got Schumer to go in on the shutdown in the first place.
And it ended badly for Dems. There is no takeaway from this. They can’t use it in the midterms, while Republicans got more low-hanging fruit from a tree you couldn’t begin to think could handle any more of it.
I’m not saying Republicans can’t still screw it up, but their fortunes just got a whole lot better, especially if Dems refuse to play nice on the remaining budgets they still need to pass.
