The shutdown is becoming 'the norm', like everything else the orange stain has done.
I'm learning about the death of the Roman republic at the moment, and I know it's such a cliche to reference it, but damn the parallels are eerie. The Romans realise their rules, traditions, checks and balances are all just words, all it takes is a charismatic demagogue to appeal to a base, and go "lol, shove your rules up your ass". Then the slippery slope to dictatorship begins. I just finished a couple podcasts learning about the populist Tiberius Gracchus and his brother, and the idea postulated that the Roman senate didn't just murder them because of farming reforms they promised the masses, but because their behaviour eschewed the rules of the Republic. They could have made themselves kings if they'd had their way, considering how easily power corrupts.
Trump's kinda like a imbecilic orange Gracchus, breaking rules, promising to save his idiotic base, and after he's gone, someone else who's not so imbecilic can continue to push the envelope thanks to Trump's precedents and break the republic (well, oligarchy, whatever).