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The pilots, federal workers, airline CEO's,and so forth are probably not MAGA (I know you were being tongue in cheek). However, they live in reality, and represent constituencies that have no choice but to live in reality.
Schumer's Shutdown is and was nothing more and nothing less than a political temper tantrum by spoiled children.
I would perhaps concede that maybe Dems could take a little flyer and try to shut down the government for a week or maybe two at the most, and see if you could get the Republicans to cave in on some or all of the One Big Beautiful Bill rollbacks the Dems have been fantasizing about. But they were way too greedy and too full of themselves. That's the delusional part. A little bit of shutdown may have been a plausible strategy--you know, the kind of thing Trump typically does--make HUUUGE demands and then cut the best deal he thinks he can, always stepping back from the brink.
But the Dems insisted on putting on a political suicide vest and either getting their way or taking the government, and the country, over the cliff with them. Again, a totally irrational and unnecessary strategy, doomed to failure from the start. What was Schumer's end game if the Republicans refused to budge? Let 42 million people starve (for example)?
But then the strategy soon gets very stale and totally counterproductive, as the more days pass by, the more the shutdown/impasse becomes established as the status quo. Both sides get locked into their positions and that was predictable.
It's a particularly stupid strategy when Republicans like Thune and Mike Johnson made it VERY clear that they were willing to haggle on the various policy issue,and make concessions of some sort or other, but they were unwilling to cave into political blackmail.
This is just a tantrum, a Democrat scream into the night, like all the memes we see of nutty Progressives when Trump got elected and re-elected.
Blame it on the Republicans and Trump all you want, a point I made earlier in the thread. Democrats have the power to immediately break the impasse regardless of what Trump or the Republicans do or don't do. The Democrats choose not to.
If the Dems claim to be operating on some sort of "principle" or moral high ground, they've never told us what exactly that principle might be. You lose an election, a bill gets passed that you don't like on a policy basis, and you're a sore loser and you're going to be like the crazy squirrel who gets on the field at a baseball game and runs away with the ball?
Yeah the Democrats are squirrely AF, I think it's an apt analogy.
