What Dems Must Learn After the Shutdown Battle

Stop going for the half-loaf and stop rewarding Trump's hostage-taking

There are so many hot-takes about how the government shutdown appears to have ended that I am a bit hesitant to weigh in but here it goes.

First of all, and this is not going to come as a surprise to frequent viewers of my show, I never believed for a moment that Democrats caused this latest crisis. Donald Trump and the Republicans control the governmen…