Worth the read - same playbook, different story. And some of the Republicans are uniparty or just self-interested/self-preserving (Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, and Rand Paul). I keep thinking we have a brief window to take care of a lot of business and prevent an utter progressive removal of all self-sovereign rights, violation of private property, taxes on unrealized gains, and continued persecution of conservatives/Christians/etc. I also unfortunately live in a blue state - and we really do not want to move because we love Colorado.

Covid 2.0: Democrats are trying to break the economy and blame it on Trump, so it's time to nuke the filibuster

The malevolent forces in D.C. are weaponizing the shutdown to turn POTUS into a lame duck.