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EffieBlack

(14,249 posts) Wed Dec 19, 2018, 10:25 AM Dec 2018

Why do people keep saying that past government shutdowns were "disasters" for Republicans

Yes - the two 1995 shutdowns had a very negative impact on Republicans.

But what harm did the 2013 shutdown do to the Republicans, besides getting them a lot of bad press at the time? A year after they shut down the government, the Republicans went on to to take back the Senate and then, two years later, they took the White House. If that's a "disaster," I'd hate to see what a success would have looked like for them.

Am I missing something?