Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Capitol ahead of the Senate vote on the deal to end the government shutdown. Nathan Posner/Shutterstock

Our long national nightmare is over, but the Democratic psychodrama isn’t.

The longest shutdown in US history — with increasing pain points across the country, whether among travelers or SNAP recipients — is ending, while the Democratic recriminations are just getting started.

“It’s complete BS,” was a relatively mild take on the deal from one congressional progressive.

As a rule of thumb, government shutdowns are bootless exercises. They rarely work because the party that causes the shutdown, thinking that it will provide leverage, invariably gets blamed for the shutdown and then — surprise! — ends up in a worse position than where it b

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