If the federal government hasn’t reopened by the time you’re reading this column, then you’ve lived to witness the Democratic Party break a lamentable record of engineering the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history.

It’s not as though the political pressure hasn’t been mounting. Democrats’ share of generic congressional polling has fallen since the start of October, while President Donald Trump ‘s approval rating has actually risen a tick. And the government has finally run into politically toxic funding deadlines.

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