A New York Post editorial board piece published on Tuesday noted that rank-and-file Democrats are largely dispirited and frustrated after a lengthy shutdown failed to win concessions from majority Republicans on issues important to their party.

Democrats pointlessly kept the government shut down for 41 days (and still counting!), purely to satisfy their squalling left flank’s need to do something to ‘resist’ President Donald Trump,”.

“After they shut it down, they opted to claim the point was to force the GOP to extend expiring Covid-era Affordable Care Act subsidies — though the Dems themselves had set the expiration date back in 2021,” it continued. “Yet the true reason was simply that Democratic grassroots activists and donors are furious that they can’t get their way in Washington, and insisted that their congresscritters express their rage.

It doesn’t matter that they’re near-powerless because they lost last year’s elections.  That is, ‘saving democracy’ never had anything to do with respecting the wishes of the majority of voters; it always meant simply ‘Stop Orange Man!’” the op-ed continued, even if it meant harming the country or impeding Trump policies that improve the lives of all Americans.

The op-ed noted, too, that the most left-wing base of the Democratic Party in Congress is livid with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), even calling for him to be removed.