Opinion | Trump’s ‘Forever Shutdown’

I don’t understand how this ends, and what I wish to say is you may’t have a eternally shutdown for very sensible causes. You don’t need each air-traffic controller to stop. You don’t need — you don’t need the properties owned by the federal authorities to fall into disrepair. Like, there have been precise issues that must occur for the nation to run. And there may be some wiggle room and redundancy over the course of a month, possibly if we’re stretching it two months. However past that, it issues that the federal authorities is operational. It appears to me that the president thinks you may have a eternally shutdown, and that within the president’s conception of issues, the shutdown provides him extra energy via some magical, convoluted, transmogrifying mechanism that nobody understands. The shutdown means the president is much more highly effective. No matter.