Welcome to the club: President Donald Trump says "a lot of good" might come from the government shutdown.

"We can get rid of a lot of things that we didn't want and they'd be Democrat things," Trump told the press on Tuesday. "They just don't learn. So we have no choice. I have to do that for the country."

I don't think he's totally wrong. And now we're getting what he wants (what we all want?) since the federal government shut down at the start of today—though, to be clear, this is a misnomer, since shutdowns are always just partial, with "essential" government services preserved and most employees just furloughed, granted back pay later on once the government reopens. ("The worst that happens is that some people are inconvenienced for a few days," writes Reason's J.D. Tuccille, "as the

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