Finally, after nine months of Donald Trump running rampant over much in the government they hold dear, Democrats in Congress have found the ground on which to fight.
Pressed to vote for a Republican plan to keep the government open through mid-November, Democrats balked, and instead laid out a series of demands that amounted to the undoing of much of what the GOP has accomplished over the past year.
It was a nonstarter for Republicans and, after days of bluster and fruitless voting, the government tipped into a shutdown just after midnight on Wednesday. For Democrats, that may have been the point – pummeled by voters last November, the party has been looking for opportunities to remake its case to Americans.
Absolutely agreed. This shutdown was inevitable and a savvy messenger would have been preparing the public for it for months already. Every day reminding the public that MAGA doesn’t have a plan and only wants power to enrich themselves and their corrupt billionaire regime. Instead they seem to have an absolutely moronic view that ‘actions speak louder than words’ which was never true, and even less true in today’s media environment. Meanwhile MAGA understands and is running laps around them with messaging. Schumer and Jeffries need to step aside NOW and get someone who knows how to communicate in charge.
Quite frankly I feel like the media tilts too far right to get their message out anyway.