Trump Doesn't Ever Want the Government to Re-Open
To understand why Republicans will keep the federal government shut down for as long as possible, you have to go back to the roots of the modern parliamentary system that influenced the formation of our legislative branch many centuries later. (Forgive me for the history lesson but it’s relevant, I promise.)
In early 13th-century England, King John’s heavy taxation, arbitrary justice, and military failures provoked growing outrage among the English barons. John ruled with little restraint, seizing lands from nobles who defied him and demanding scutage payments (payoffs from vassals to avoid military service they owed the crown).
By 1215, a broad coalition of barons, clergy, and even some townsmen united against him, demanding that the king recognize their rights under what became the Magna Carta. When John reluctantly sealed the charter at Runnymede, it established that the crown could not levy taxes or punish subjects without lawful judgment or consent — principles that planted the seeds of representative government.
Though King John soon renounced the Magna Carta and civil war resumed, the barons’ rebellion set a precedent for limiting royal authority. After John’s death in 1216, baronial demands evolved into a more formal system of consultation. The 1265 parliament — summoning not only nobles and bishops but also knights and burgesses — marked the first true representative assembly in England. What began as a desperate move by rebellious barons to restrain a tyrannical king gradually transformed into the enduring institution of Parliament, redefining the balance of power between ruler and ruled.
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/trump-doesnt-ever-want-the-government
Trump is MAGA Mike's Lard and Savior. He's content to be Donny's Groom of the Stool.
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