Here's the secret to understanding the next twenty years.
When the Democrats who signed onto the Crominibus love letter to Wall Street did what they did, they said that if you looked at the threat of government not being funded it was obviously worth it.
What they didn't tell you, is that several times every year for many years to come, the Republicans are going to continue to hold the budget hostage.
Every time they do so, there will be another emergency. And every time that they do so, a group of Democrats will join the Republicans and sign whatever horrorshow of a compromise they like. Each time we will give up massive ground and all Wall Street to continue to swallow up America.
The President, whether Republican or Democrat, will continue to appoint Supreme Court members who are vile atrocities. They will make decisions which will destroy what little of the middle class is left.
They are going to keep doing this, for as long as we let them.