Listen up, hardworking Americans: Kayleigh McEnany nailed it on her Fox show when she warned that Democrats “without question” made a major miscalculation by thinking a shutdown would help them politically. President Trump put it bluntly too — saying Democrats “made one mistake” that gives Republicans the leverage to cut entrenched giveaway programs and even kill big projects they never should have gotten in the first place.
This shutdown — which began on October 1, 2025 — is no abstract Washington game; it has real consequences for real people, from furloughed federal employees to disrupted services that families and small businesses depend on. Democrats own this mess because they insisted on political priorities over reopening the government and protecting Americans’ paychecks and services.
The White House has already started using that leverage: the administration froze billions in infrastructure spending and announced further suspensions of projects tied to Democratic strongholds, proving that when Democrats play hardball, Republicans can and should fight back for fiscal sanity. If Democrats truly thought the shutdown would be a win, they badly underestimated how voters feel about wasteful spending and open borders priorities.
McEnany was right to call the Democratic strategy a miscalculation — not because drama is bad television, but because millions of Americans pay the price when party elites choose ideology over governance. Conservatives shouldn’t apologize for pointing out that a party willing to shut down the government to protect its entitlement expansion or open-border giveaways is out of touch with everyday taxpayers.
Meanwhile, the left’s latest political pet in New York, Zohran Mamdani, exposed the incoherence at the heart of Democrats’ foreign-policy instincts. He first dodged a direct question about whether Hamas should lay down its arms during a Fox interview and only later tried to walk it back at a debate — a classic flip-flop that should alarm anyone who cares about public safety and American values.
Make no mistake: electing politicians who equivocate on terror groups or champion radical slogans while promising economic utopias is dangerous for our city streets and our national security. Mamdani’s hesitation speaks volumes — it shows a politician more interested in keeping a progressive coalition together than standing unequivocally with victims of terror and with law-and-order.
Patriots, the choice could not be clearer. We either let the Democrat elite keep using shutdowns, giveaways, and radical candidates as bargaining chips, or we unite behind leaders who prioritize American workers, public safety, and fiscal responsibility. Keep your eyes open, hold them accountable, and remember: when Democrats gamble with the country, conservatives will stand for the people who actually build America.
