There’s a lot of ill-suppressed glee among Republicans right now, along with recriminations among Democrats , about the resolution of the longest government shutdown ever. Eight Democratic senators were able to undercut a few hundred of their colleagues by ending a filibuster against a bill to reopen government, exhibiting both weakness and disunity. (Though there’s no telling how many holdouts privately agreed with the “cave.”) Worse, Democrats failed to secure an extension of Obamacare premium subsidies they repeatedly demanded.

So were Republicans the “winners” and Democrats the “losers” in the shutdown saga? Maybe now, but maybe not later. As the New York Times ’ Annie Karni observes , the short-term stakes of the shutdown fight may soon be overshadowed by more enduring pu

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