Ready for my most controversial takes yet? The Dems won the shutdown fight! - This "fold" won't matter at all in next years midterms but making the GOP own the dogshit BBB/tariff/health care policies will - This is not an example of Dems "not fighting like Republicans" it's a longer shutdown than anything the kamikaze Tea Party ever did! - The people who are mad about this are a small subset of the electorate that treat politics like sports and its possible that their crying about the fold will contribute to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory - There was no path to getting the Obamacare subsidies back because the GOP controls everything and was never going to do it and they are fake populists. Dems should run against them on that topic and they have a great case study now. MTG helps with that. - The fact that there was no getting Obamacare subsidy extension endgame was obvious at the start and anyone setting that expectation was lying to people. Ratio away!

If you’ve been writing in people for president for over a decade because you can’t support the Republican consider the possibility that you are no longer functionally a Republican.