POLITICS: Democrats’ fresh government-shutdown folly — just ‘take the win’

It’s just stupid for Democrats in Congress to turn Minneapolis into a cause for another government shutdown starting Friday — why can’t they just “take the win”?

Sadly, they’ve just grown too afraid of crossing their base voters, who are sure the reason they can’t win a majority is that people who disagree just aren’t paying enough attention.

In reality, plenty of Americans who recoil at Homeland Security excesses also don’t want open borders, so won’t go along with the left’s quest to destroy ICE.

And don’t see the sense in even a limited government shutdown. 

But here we are: Senate Dems intend to block a “minibus” appropriations bill to express their fury over the Alex Pretti shooting and the whole Minneapolis mess — even though that drama is now winding down.

“Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included,” vowed Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

They’ll block funding for roughly half the government unless Republicans separate out DHS so they can block just Homeland Security.

At least Squad firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is honest: She and her lefty allies want all immigration enforcement suspended; they’re right back to their “Abolish ICE” demands from the first Trump term.

And even Dems who normally show some sense are running scared.

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-Bx.) just cut a campaign ad where he calls for the abolition of the immigration enforcement agency; he’s also set forth a bill requiring QR codes on ICE and Border Patrol uniforms to help activists ID them for possible doxxing campaigns or worse.

Even “common sense” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-LI) now says he regrets his recent vote to fund ICE as he damns the agency’s “illegal and immoral conduct.”

Argh: If the GOP declines to let the Dems single out DHS (and why should it?), the progressive party will once again be shutting down a host of agencies that mainly help Democratic constituencies; they’re also blocking any chance to restore at least some of the Obamacare subsidies they were demanding in the last shutdown drama.

And as the cool-down proceeds in Minneapolis, eventually enough moderates will quit holding everything up; Schumer & Co. might as well just be holding their breath ’til they turn blue.

The clueless left’s power has grown so strong that Democrats are going to impose suffering on their own people in a completely futile stand.