My advice to Republicans after yesterday's disaster is to keep the government shut down.

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The size and scope of the turnouts in elections on November 4th, along with the results, certainly did point to one factor that can be found in common across the board, in every Republican defeat. The government shutdown is being blamed straight up on the GOP. You can see it in exit polls, in turnout, in the results, especially in places where Trump got involved and made himself and his endorsement known. Turnout was up, higher than predicted, margins were wider than predicted and even the President, who does his best to shut out the truth and run from reality, acknowledged it.

I've heard the excuses. What did we expect from deep blue states? Well, not margins or turnout like this, not with our best guesses.

Stick with your principles in time of adversity. Don't be a flip flopper. That's good political advice, isn't it? From my perspective, I think it is. I would strongly advise Republicans to keep the government shut down, at least for a little while longer. It's not working for you, clearly, but it sure is working for us. Be lazy, stay home, enjoy your vacation time that we, the taxpayers, are providing for you. Leave the appearance of doing nothing. That will be so helpful, at least, it will to any Democrats running to take over your seats.

The President's meltdown today confirms it. Somehow word leaked out in spite of the fact that he booted reporters before he started spreading across the floor like the wicked witch of the west. Since, in his mind, nothing can ever be his fault, he blamed it all on the shutdown. But what does he know anyway, the loser? Listening to the guy who endorsed all of yesterday's losers, and helped by paying for the campaigns of some of them, can't be productive.

Well, here's the thing. Trump always chickens out. Now you have to decide whether you can trust his judgment. You can't, but that's the beauty of this think. Republicans are in one bitch of a bind and it is going to be a rough stretch down the road. Even if they get the government running again, more than likely on Democratic party terms, they have to deal with Trump's growing unpopularity. It's a lose-lose situation and I'm so happy about it. It might be simpler just to keep the government shut down for damage control purposes. That might be a better thing to do, for those political ends anyway, than trying to guess where the bottom is on Trump's unpopularity.

I think the 2026 midterms are going to tell us exactly where that is.