Will the media help its masters across the finish line? These people think so, and it's certainly what I worried abut here (before the walk-out)

Schumer-Linked Group Reportedly Tells Democrats To Gear Up For Long-Term Shutdown

A super PAC closely aligned with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is reportedly urging Democrats to hold firm in the government shutdown fight, arguing that the party is winning the political messaging battle, according to a memo obtained by Axios.

The memo from Senate Majority PAC (SMP), one of the top groups backing Senate Democrats, warned that it would be a “mistake to take the pressure off Republicans,” according to Axios, and that Democrats’ stance on protecting affordable health care is winning with voters. The report comes as the government enters its seventh day of a shutdown, already the fourth longest in the country’s history, with government programs and federal employees feeling the impact as benefits and pay lapse.

The internal guidance framed the shutdown as a political opportunity to define the 2026 midterms around health care costs and inflation, issues Democrats believe favor them, according to Axios. “Don’t flinch,” the memo instructed Democrats.

Polling commissioned by SMP reportedly found that 52% of likely 2026 voters blame President Trump and congressional Republicans for the shutdown, while 40% blame Democrats, according to Axios. 62% of respondents said preventing major health insurance premium hikes is more important than ending the shutdown quickly. 

Other polling also found that a hefty 78% of Americans support extending the ACA’s enhanced tax credits, comprised of 92% of Democrats and 59% of Republicans

At least half the country gets its news exclusively from the Democrats’ media wing — while those of us on the right can’t escape exposure to the other side’s arguments just because they’re so ubiquitous — a huge segment of voters lives in a closed world of information selected and shaped by Democrats — try discussing world events or politics with these people and see how many facts and events they’ve never even heard of, or think they know (It’s a matter of rock-solid belief among them that Trump called Nazis and White Power goons “fine people”, and no, thank you, they don’t want to see the actual unedited video).

And the second, perhaps strongest point in the Democrat strategists’ optimistic prediction of success is that everyone loves a free lunch; free for them, and who cares if it’s actually paid for by inflation and pass-through to a future generation? “I got mine, Bud” has always been a sure crowd pleaser.

To quote from that Washington Post editorial I posted about Monday …

This is how entitlement programs work. Once you habituate people to some generous government handout, they grow dependent on it. And it becomes politically perilous, if not impossible, to fully claw it back. Conservatives fought so hard to stop Obamacare 15 years ago because they anticipated fights like this one.