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Hate to say it, take no pleasure in my fellow Americans getting hurt,
but the voters need to really feel what their vote for Trump and MAGA
has done to their life.
How does that help if they end up blaming the Democrats for it when it happens?
Trump and the GOP are going to blame the shutdown for the ACA and SNAP cuts. They're going to claim that the interruption to SNAP was caused by Democrats refusing to fund the government, and they're going to (eventually) cut a deal with the Democrats after the shutdown is over restoring the ACA subsidies. So they'll have a nice, easy set of ads to run in 2026 pointing out that if the Democrats had only just passed the clean CR (as they have every time before), none of those bad things would have happened.
And enough of your fellow Americans might believe it to spare them much electoral pain, because the party that is trying to use the shutdown to get substantive policy changes usually gets blamed for the shutdown. So while there's always the chance that this works out for Democrats, it's hardly a sure thing....
