a great column in the new york times this morning by david leonard who points out, you know what, the republicans when the trump republicans decided to racial ize this, they understood they were appealing to the voters who will control congress in the midterm elections. that by making this the military versus illegal immigrants, they were going back to the base, encouraging those trump voters to come back. so, they were arguing this exactly on the grounds they did. and i think the democrats probably had a sense that this was not going to end well. that if they want to win on daca, they need to separate it from the government shutdown just like the republicans realized that shutdown politics generally don t work. jonathan swan, you want to get in a last word just on that idea of democrats as borrowing the ted cruz handbook? it has, it s become a much hard line party, not just with this. but we saw the 2020 class of democrats come out late last year and say we re not going to fun