Well, in his first term, Donald Trump created the longest government shutdown in history,

and now in his second term, Donald Trump has set the record again for the new longest government shutdown in history.

The end of the government shutdown was forged when five Senate Democrats, and only five, changed their position in a compromise that forced every Senate Republican to change their

positions, while it also forced Donald Trump to change his position.

And it has forced every Republican members, the House of Representatives, to now change their position. And it has forced every Republican members, the House representatives,

to now change their positions. So this is five Democrats who changed their position,

and 53 Republican senators, 217 Republican House members, and one Republican president, a total of 271 Republicans,

who changed their positions and are now supporting a version of a budget bill that they said

they would never support. And five Democrats who changed their position to vote for that same bill, which was

proposed by those five Democrats.

So who caved here?

What does caved mean?

But this being Washington, the five changed votes on the Democratic side versus the 271 Republicans changing their position

is being generally reported as the Democrats, meaning all of them, the Democrats

abandoning their position, the Democrats caving, the Democrats losing the shutdown.

So five Democrats changed their position, 2171 Republicans changed their position

to arrive at a compromise position. And it's reported as just the Democrats caving. Now, if we

want to use the word cave in place of the word compromise, 271 Republicans, including Donald Trump, caved to just

five Democrats, not eight, just five, because three Democrats were already voting with

Republicans on this.

271 Republicans changed their position to accept the demands of five Democrats that created the 60-vote majority in the Senate to pass a bill.

And what did those Democrats achieve?

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