Shutting Down the Shutdown

The fact that he has taken an important step toward the first of these has been enough to shake up the ghastly Democratic morality play, with its promise that if the president just brings everyone back to work in the federal government, they will sit down with him in a spirit of compromise but will not give more than one dollar for any sort of wall or barrier. The Democrats seem to have gained about three points in the polls so far, but that is a very modest return from the president’s televised utterance that he would be “proud to own” the shutdown.