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Despite what Trump said about it, I think Thune is absolutely right. The Dems got themselves into this mess, they overplayed a weak or non-existent hand. They need to take the full impact of whatever the political consequences might be.
Trump may simply be triangulating so he can say it's not his fault that the shutdown continued, since he advocated for breaking the filibuster rule. However, the rule has some very useful purposes--to force a consensus--and giving up on that while not perhaps immediately being a cave-in to the Dems, would set a very bad precedent.
The constituencies are getting restless and telling the Dems to pass the clean C.R. and the Dems are too arrogant to listen.
O.K.
Let some people on SNAP start feeling the actual pangs of hunger because of Schumer et al. The Republicans will play all those clips of Dem leaders saying they deliberately sought to leverage the common peoples' pain to extract political "leverage."
When all those 42 million people on social welfare for basic needs start to actually get hungry, maybe a good number of them will finally start to realize that socialism is no paradise. Dependence on the government equals being controlled by the government. When the socialists, socialist Democrats, Democrats, and Progressives decide you little people need to suffer so they can get political "leverage," you will be starved to death. Maybe then it will hit home for the recipients of these benefits that the socialist velvet glove has an iron fist in it. A lesson that many need to learn--including the voters of NYC.
