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Government shutdowns were not a thing until 1980.
As of Oct 20 2025, there have been 106 days that the government has been shut down.
Of those 106 days, 58 of them were under Trump, more than half and growing.
Trump has had the government shut down more than President’s Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, Dubya, Obama and Biden… combined!
MAGA shutdown.
That’s wild.
Why exactly Republicans think Democrats should trust them on a vote to discuss healthcare subsidies “later” is beyond comprehension. Republicans blew up the trust when they used rescissions and they won’t take further use off the table.
Republicans have spent 2025 governing by fiat. They can blow up the filibuster and open the government any time they choose. They didn’t let the filibuster keep them from passing tax cuts. They don’t let the filibuster keep them from appointing judges. But, now, they’re hamstrung by the filibuster. Odd, that.
This is all by design. The longer the government is shut down the more they can dismantle and degrade the pillars of the modern American society. There is nothing in place to protect against this and no one capable or brave enough to fight against it. The people in power want to tear down and rebuild the government for the benefit of them and their friends. The American experiment is over unless we are all willing to do the uncomfortable work necessary to save a democracy.
There is little evidence the MAGAts are attempting to save democracy. That’s the whole point of the mid-decade re-districting; to reduce the number of Democrats in Congress. That’s the whole point of the assualt on the Voting Rights Act. That’s the whole point of the anti-DEI and EEOC efforts.
Trump believes, and rightly so to this point, the Supreme Court conservative wing will bail him out. A wing composed of two beneficiaries of the DEI and Equal Opportunity programs for which they now show utter disdain.
The MAGAts won’t negotiate on ACA premium supports to prove they don’t need to, and to enjoy the benefit of wholesale disassembly of the federal government. Even as the impact falls in large part on their constituents.
Never though I’d find myself on the same side of an issue as Marjorie Taylor Greene… to say we live in interesting times is a huge understatement.