Like velociraptors testing the bars, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have systematically identified where the weaknesses in the opposition can be found, and this week they netted their biggest prey yet: Nine Democratic senators (and whatever Angus King is) who voted to pass a destructive budget bill that tacitly endorses Trump and Musk’s ongoing decimation of the civil service and gives them a freer hand to carry it out. I am sorry to say that it is now incumbent on you, the voters, to use whatever means are at your disposal to end these senators’ careers.
Regardless of whether or not these senators have gone full Vichy, the more obvious thing to say about them is that they are cowards, and thus unfit to serve in office. It’s bad enough that they surrendered their ability to credibly criticize the president’s slash-and-burn campaign against our civic fabric. What’s more galling is that they did so despite the fact that their greatest fear going into the vote—that the public would somehow hold them, the party out of power, responsible for a government shutdown—wasn’t going to materialize: A Quinnipiac poll from midweek revealed that only 32 percent of respondents would blame Democrats for a shutdown, against 54 percent blaming either congressional Republicans or Trump himself. In other words, these ten senators forced the rest of the Democratic caucus to fold on a winning hand.
The Democrats who voted with Trump have badly misapprehended a situation that anyone with intelligence could have divined: There is no substantive difference between a government shutdown and what Republicans are already doing and intend to do in the future. The only thing that’s changed is that the GOP can now claim to have bipartisan assent for their wave of mutilation. This is the sort of thing for which the phrase “penny wise and pound foolish” was invented.
While it’s never too soon to prepare to support these senators’ primary opponents (or perhaps prepare to become one of them), this is admittedly a depressingly long timeline. Still, there is an avenue for immediate satisfaction: The entire House of Representatives is up for election next year and there are plenty of quisling cousins to these senators among the lower house’s ranks who might serve as fitting targets for your wrath. If you’re a fan of nice round numbers, there’s an ideal symmetry to be found in the ten representatives who voted with Republicans to censure Al Green, after the Texas Democrat stood up to Trump’s bullying at his joint address to Congress earlier this month.
It hasn’t gone unremarked upon that the anger of Democratic voters of all stripes is growing by the day. As Anne Caprara, the chief of staff to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, warned earlier this week, “The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left, and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.” Ten ostensibly anti-Trump senators failed to follow this advice. They did so in the belief that you’re like they are—your anger is all for show, your convictions are lacking, and you don’t have the stomach to follow through on your beliefs and protestations. They sincerely believe that you will, at some point, quietly acquiecse to the status quo; forgive and forget. It’s now up to you to prove them wrong.
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