What did they get out of the shutdown?
They got clout.
I get it people aren´t really interested in politics but actually the shutdown worked perfectly.
I wouldve preferred to let it get to the point of checks not getting sent out even mines but I barely spend a quarter of one of my checks If I was in the states contracting I´d be hurting.
So the democrats showed that donnie is down to crash the whole system just to give cuts to his buddies.
A vote for the democrats could be justified as saying
Hey we ain´t gonna blow up the system for petty political points
donnie ran on tariffs and when they started to hurt his people he backed off on a plan he was for so that show basic incompetence.