By Douglas V. Gibbs
An illusion of victory has been achieved, but the end of the government shutdown masks deeper losses and tyrannical victories. The news has reached beyond the murky depths of The Swamp, and the claim is that the government shutdown is coming to an end. Both sides are working to get a new bill passed in the Senate and to a vote in the House of Representatives, with expectations that within a few days the whole quagmire of government shutdown will be over. It turns out the illegal aliens get nothing, federal spending cuts achieved by the Big Beautiful Bill have been protected, and federal funding for WOKE projects around the world have not been reawakened. But, while on the surface we see a win, it all masks deeper losses and a creeping advancement of the opposition.
While on the surface we have seen President Trump push the Deep State against the ropes, and the population of Establishment Republicans and their quiet sabotage has been reduced, the game has not been won, yet. Let’s remember that while all of the Democrats, aside from perhaps Senator Fetterman of Pennsylvania, see President Trump as an enemy that must be taken down by any means possible, there are an awful lot of Republicans who feel the same way. Trump is a threat to their power and the soul of the leviathan we could also call the Uni-Party. The trough that they feed from has not been totally dismantled. Be assured, the Uni-Party machine still exists. Deep State operatives and Trump-Derangement-Syndrome politicians are still working to unseat Trump, and they exist in both political parties.
While the Old Guard Establishment in the GOP has been forced to reduce its numbers, the ones remaining lie in wait in secrecy as they shield themselves with deceptive measures that make it look like they support the President. The Democrats and Establishment Republicans do not wish for President Trump to succeed. They see the MAGA Agenda as a threat to their plans, and the shutdown reenergized their movements which are all connected to the wave of Cultural Marxism that is still flowing through America. DEI, WOKE, climate activism and the rise of an energized radical Red/Green Commie/Muslim alliance are all signs of what is being pushed in our country. The Democrats and their establishment Deep State allies in the bureaucracy and the Republican Party are still moving our system toward a greater redistribution of wealth while herding the American People around like a bunch of mindless automatons programmed to do their bidding. The government shutdown was a valuable tool for them to normalize resistance Trump, and to normalize the downstream effects of their resistance: violence, economic sabotage, and cultural chaos. Hurting the livelihood of Americans with their antics has never been a concern by them. Their careers and their power are all that matters to them. And they, the Deep State Swamp who hates Trump and the American System, are in cahoots with the worldwide order of the Global Cabal. While the government shutdown is coming to an end, and it looks like “we won,” much of what they wanted to achieve was achieved.
My expectation regarding the government shutdown was that the Democrats who would cross the line Schumer had drawn in the sand would be those nervous about keeping their seats in upcoming elections. However, not a single one of the Democratic Senators who gave in are up for reelection in 2026. Not one of them. Perhaps the damage to the Democrats was becoming too great, so they gave in. Perhaps they were satisfied that enough pain had been inflicted. In the end they still did a lot of damage to the U.S. Economy, and slowed down Trump’s economic improvement. The Trump Economy was beginning to roar before the shutdown began, but the shutdown obstacle set us back much of the way, placing us closer to the economic chaos inflicted before the 2024 Election.
The Democratic Party during the last six months, and in particular during the government shutdown, normalized their “resistance” with their base, while also boosting the effects of their radical youth takeover. The politicians sent a message to their voters to “do whatever it takes,” and their minions responded in kind. The leftward shift lurched further leftward, and the troops on the ground responded by being more and more willing to respond violently. During the shutdown violence against ICE increased, Border Patrol agents were shot at, and some SNAP recipients were using social media to encourage shoplifting as a means of survival. At the same time, DEI, WOKEism, and even the Environmentalist Cult and their Climate Change brethren became a little bit charged up. Their movements, after all, were fading as we approached the shutdown, but “RESISTANCE” by the politicians gave them a shot of adrenaline. They want chaos. They want division. They want fear.
The Democrats needed the radicalism in their party to be bolstered. After all, there’s a key Mid-Term Election on the horizon in 2026, and they believe if they can just energize all of the extremists to visit the ballot box, they can overcome the MAGA GOP next year.
The shutdown also pushed aside more of the old Establishment Democrats who tended to sometimes flex a bone in their system that didn’t lurch so far to the left. Moderates and older Establishment Democrats are no longer tolerated in the Democratic Party. The Mamdani Democrats, young and fresh out of their conditioning sessions in the Education System Meat Grinder, are ready to take full control of the Democratic Party, and they need the less radical older politicians to step aside. Radical candidates are surging across the country, and as hoped by the radical youth takeover and their communist allies the likes of Nancy Pelosi are retiring, and Chuck Schumer is getting hammered.
A shuffle is also happening in the Republican Party. The question is, will it embolden the Establishment Republicans remaining on Capitol Hill, or will them being exposed finally convince MAGA voters to purge the GOP of its false allies?
Internal division inside party politics is not enough for these monsters, however. They need division to emerge at all levels of society. They need class warfare that digs deeper than politics. They want families at each other’s throats. They want the Anti-Trump gang ad the Pro-Trump folks to fight it out in the streets, in the schools, in the halls of government and across their dinner tables. The Mid-Term Election is coming up quick, and Thanksgiving and Christmas family gatherings across America play a big part in how Mid-Terms progress. Anger, violence, the pointing of fingers and the laying of blame are all important tools for tyranny, and they cannot tolerate any unification of Americans, especially under Trump’s MAGA flag. They need the Left and Not-So-Left launching bombs at each other, and Trump’s supporters bickering within.
While I am happy the government shutdown’s conclusion is on its way, and I see it as a victory on the surface, we need to also recognize the irony of “winning” the shutdown while losing ground culturally and spiritually. Some victories were preserved, but the forces arrayed against liberty were able to harden their stance. While we achieved a victory, the Powers and Principalities that the hard-left zombies are shackled to became more vicious. The whole thing ought to have reminded us that this was but a mere skirmish in a war that transcends politics. The forces against liberty are not merely ideological. They are spiritual. They want us divided, distracted, and disarmed. But, we are not without protection. We have the full armor of God. And we are also able to go on the offense. We wield the Sword of the Spirit. We don’t just stand for President Trump or a movement. We stand as spiritual warriors for God, we stand for the Constitution, and we stand for a truth that cannot be silenced. Let the flack come. It only proves we are over the target.
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