Ezra Klein gives Democrats the rationale for allowing a government shutdown.

“I want to be very clear about what I am saying here. Donald Trump is corrupting the government — he is using it to hound his enemies, to line his pockets and to entrench his own power. He is corrupting it the way the Mafia would corrupt the industries it controlled. You could still, under Mafia rule, get the trash picked up or buy construction materials. But the point of those industries had become the preservation and expansion of the Mafia’s power and wealth.”

“This is what Trump is doing to the government. This is what Democrats cannot fund. This is what they have to try to stop.”

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