How does an out-of-power party get the government started again after it's vacated [View all]

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...one of these courageous people who want to shut the government down tell me what that acquiescence to Trump would result in, other than Trump getting the eviscerated government he wants without lifting a finger?

The OMB director who will be in charge of government during the shutdown, and responsible for what closes, reopens, and how, btw, has already said he wants federal workers in 'trauma'.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.

Why should we enable this man to put furloughed workers through trauma?

What's the actual end game to a shutdown that protects these workers' jobs? I don't actually understand the strategy of making them suffer for our 'courageous' political plan to leave the federal government bare for the pickings.