Dick Durbin has seen his share of epic political battles as Illinois’ senior lawmaker in Washington. So he surely isn’t surprised at the slings and arrows coming his way from fellow Democrats after being one of eight Democratic senators to vote to reopen the government on terms most in his party say constitute capitulation to the detested Donald Trump. But we suspect he is surprised by the amount of poisonous rhetoric.

We’re under no illusions about why Durbin took the position he did. He is retiring at the end of his term in 2027, and the reality of the dealmaking that just transpired among Democrats in the Senate meant that serving the American people and getting the government reopened meant being willing to take a fall.

Many Democratic senators (not all) concluded the longest governm

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