The truth about the blame game in any government shutdown you will never hear on cable news - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Clinton came out forcefully as a defender of entitlement programs, while Gingrich and the Republicans looked like the dog that caught the car -- getting their shutdown, but unsure what to do next.
55% : Yet Trump continued to lead all potential Democratic challengers for most of the next year -- until the COVID pandemic hit in March 2020.
50% : Meanwhile, President Bill Clinton was on the ropes heading into his 1996 reelection campaign.
36% : There was a clear consensus at the time that Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, outmaneuvered Trump, who held up the government seeking additional funding for a border wall.
30% : There may even be incentives for Trump to let a shutdown drag on for quite some time.
28% : And there's this: Trump was reelected despite being the only president impeached twice and the only former president found guilty of a crime.
25% : In other words, Trump "losing" the longest shutdown and getting the bulk of the blame had essentially zero impact on politics going forward.
19% : Heading into this potential shutdown, a Quinnipiac University poll found 31 percent of Americans would blame Congressional Republicans, 32 percent would blame Congressional Democrats, 22 percent would blame Trump, and 15 percent weren't sure who to blame.

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