The left, very understandably, is angry. It wants to do something. It doesn’t have the votes to do much, but shutting down the government is something. Therefore, it must be done.
Except that the Democrats are the party of superego and constructive government, unlike the Republicans, who are the party of nihilism and id. Just doing something may feel good in the short run, but it can make matters worse later. The extremists in the GOP prove this all the time.
Schumer got my memo. His arguments in favor of voting for the bill are the same as mine. It’s perfectly OK for most of the party to disagree, because it leads to the least bad outcome; the Democrats as a whole oppose the bill, but it passes, anyway.
There is a right way and a wrong way to oppose Trump and Musk. The right way is through the judicial system and in the court of moderate public opinion. The wrong way is to shoot yourself in the foot to give the base a temporary high.