When it came to the January 2018 government shutdown the Democrats are playing the blame game when instead what the Democrats should be playing is the truth game.

De-funding the federal government is what the Republicans campaigned on. Shut it down and drain the swamp are the rallying cries of the Trump base. So the fact that the Democrats refused to compromise on a continuing resolution gave the Republicans, especially the conservative Trump base Republicans, exactly what they wanted. Republicans should have been dancing in the streets all weekend because the EPA was shutdown, the IRS was shutdown, the department of Health and Human Services was shutdown, the national parks were closed, social security was shutdown, the dreaded Obama care was shutdown. For a few short days there was no federal big brother to stomp on states rights, there was no federal big brother to stomp on multinational corporations, banks, or billionaires. Everything that the conservative Republicans yell and scream about came true for one magic weekend in January.

Trump, through his brilliant incompetence, delivered on his biggest promise, the swamp was drained. There should have been fireworks on the White House grounds and rainbows over the Capitol.

But wait, the Republicans hated the shutdown. They blamed the Democrats.

So why don’t the Democrats ask the question, why are the Republicans runing away from these promises? And if the Republicans don’t want to take credit for delivering on Trump’s campaign promises, why don’t the Democrats come forward and say “we delivered on Trump’s promise, we drained the swamp, we shut it down.” The Democrats can just say, we delivered where the Republicans and Trump failed! The Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress and yet the Republicans say they are not responsible for the government shutdown, well that’s great, then the Democrats should remind Republican voters that even with all that power in the hands of the Republicans, it was the Democrats who delivered on Trump’s promise to shut it down and drain the swamp. The Democrats did it. The lying Republicans promised to do it, but when push came to shove, they all hid from it and did not have the balls to deliver what the Republican voters wanted.

And if Democrats are smart they won’t restart the government until the Republicans present a budget that defunds all of the federal programs they promised to permanently defund. They won’t restart the government until Trump presents a plan with the border wall being paid for by Mexico. They won’t restart the government until the Republicans fund a replacement for Obama care and his tax cuts within a balanced budget.

Democrats, your biggest weapon against the Republicans is their own campaign promises. Help them to deliver on these promises. Force them to deliver on these promises. With the government shutdown there is no better time than now!