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David Brooks:
Yes, I agree with that totally. It was a total victory.
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But it is a total — a total victory for the Democrats.
I turned on some conservative talk radio, the Sean Hannity show this afternoon. And Sean was trying to defend it, but his callers were having none of it. They thought, this is a collapse, this is a defeat, we're really downhearted.
And they understood what happened, that the poll ratings were just terrible. His poll ratings have dropped to 37 percent. I saw in one poll today 34 percent, which is an all-time low.
And now they're likely to go a little lower, by the way, because now he's base is a little upset with them. And you think, three weeks in advance — I would say this to federal workers — the Democrats are feeling great about themselves.
If Donald Trump wants bring this on again, they're happy. If — the Republicans are miserable. They never want to come back to where they are right now. And so the odds that we will have another shutdown strike me as low.
And it would be — for Trump, it would be suicidally low to — just to try this again.
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Judy Woodruff:
But he's still the president, David. He still got a Republican Senate.

David Brooks:
Right. But I'm not sure how many of them will want to walk in any difficult confrontation with him.
And just the — as Mark said, it's always great to declare a shutdown, because you get that first burst of, oh, yes, we're really standing up. But then you have to have step two, three, four, five, and you have to have a path to victory.
And in every government shutdown, from the Ted Cruz one to this one, they have never had a path to get there. And it's always hurt the side that instigated it.

Ideologically, Brooks has been described as a moderate,[32] a centrist,[33] a conservative,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40] and a moderate conservative.[41][42] Brooks has described himself as a "moderate",[43] and said in a 2017 interview that "[one] of [his] callings is to represent a certain moderate Republican Whig political philosophy.
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Brooks has long been a supporter of John McCain; however, he disliked McCain's 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin, calling her a "cancer" on the Republican Party.[58] He has referred to her as a "joke", unlikely ever to win the Republican nomination.

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