“If your party has the chance to stop the opposing party from doing a terrible thing, you're not absolving them of their own responsibility. But you do have the ability to act and stop the terrible thing from happening. In this case, the Democrats had their own choice to make: continue to press on in the shutdown knowing that it will result in the GOP causing people to go hungry, or to abandon pushing for the ACA subsidy expansion.”

So the reason Americans were going to suffer is because democrats had the gumption to oppose a clean CR. The answer was to admit their mistake like the good surrender monkeys they are.

The Clintonite surrender was weak and will just disgust Americans more at the democrats spinelessness. The politics of SNAP, which is entirely the responsibility of the Republican Party, was awful for republicans. While people were having their food cut and their health care gutted, the nightly news had Epsteinesque images of girls in martini glasses flashing their legs at a Trump soiree. Trump and his MAGA party were bungling their way into a complete disaster, but Thune could count on dinocrats folding has his saving grace. He knew the dinocrats feared the class politics they had to pursue to save what remains of social benefits from the ravages of Trump and his glutinous base of billionaires.

The courts and the Nov 21 deadline were going to force the republicans to act or to own their politics of starvation completely, there was no reason for the dinocrats to take ownership of that politics.

The dismantling of the social safety net can continue apace now that democrats have surrendered.