It was a lose-lose situation for the democrats and for our democracy!
Yes Trumpists won this battle and perhaps the war to stem Trump from running completely roughshod over the residual branches of power. My preference was for Democrats to vote against the CR, shut the government down, and bring House Trumpists back to negotiate. However, Trumpists had the winning hand, and by that I mean Rep Johnson (read that to mean Trump) extorted recalcitrant House members to vote for the resolution. This means the Democrats had no leverage with which to negotiate. Under a normal occupant of the WH, this would have worked. But when we have mad King Donald in control of MAGA, it becomes easy to extort elected officials, who lust for power, with expulsion. The Democrats had a losing hand and may continue to have a six high hand with no matching suits.
As for Democracy ... well .... Trump has not quite completed his mission, but continues to trample on the Constitution ... and MAGA loves it. Pundits keep saying Trump is losing support ... well not quite true. He may be losing some non-MAGA voters who selected him to bring grocery prices down, but not MAGA. But you type ... townhalls!!! ... really. After they vent their dissatisfaction with their elected representative, they will continue to support Trump. They will use pretzel logic to rationalize and justify their support for Trump. Like so many interviews I have seen with Trump supporters (and from personal experience), when asked the question, is there anything Trump could do which would force them not to support Trump, the answer is always .... no ... always.
For the time being the lower courts are holding the line, however Trump has already begun a campaign of demonization of the courts, himself, and his allies, including spokesperson Leavitt. There are over 100 cases relating to Trump;s monarchical fiats, which are all destined to wind up in the SC. I am not convinced the Trumpist majority will falter. Hard right conservatives have been working on destroying the federal government for many years. They now have a willing idiot at the helm, easy to manipulate, to do the job. The SC will be more than willing to implement ultraconservative legal views into their opinions. These opinions will only be beneficial to not only encouraging Trump to act as king, but will effectively destroy Democracy. Now if you believe retaking Congress will change it, perhaps you should take a look at the court. These folks are locked in for a generation, and Trump will have the opportunity to appoint even crazier justices should the oldest retire. Now if you're hoping the SC judges against Trump, well, suppose they do. At some point narcissism will emerge and as king, Trump will ignore the courts, after all they are degenerate lunatics.
Can't happen in America ... I think someone said while on the Titanic after struck by iceberg ... not going to sink
