Run with the ball, Mr. President!

Schumer wants to shut down the government, demanding absurd, completely non-starter things like extending Medicare to illegal aliens. In the event of a government shutdown, President Trump has considerable leeway to freeze spending - including not just furloughing federal workers, but eliminating their positions permanently: "Nice Swamp Ya Got There, Chuck. Shame If Something Happened to It."

The White House’s budget office directed federal agencies to draw up plans to permanently reduce their workforces if there is a government shutdown next week, raising the specter of mass firings on top of the customary furloughs during a lapse in funding.

The new memo sent by Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought sharply raises the stakes for funding talks and increases the pressure on Senate Democrats, who are demanding that Republicans restore hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare spending as a condition of their support for keeping the government funded.

This is the best opportunity for delivering Northern Virginia from the leftist chokehold on state and national elections in decades.  Once the bureaucrats and government lawyers are canned en masse, there won't be any reason for them to hang around Fairfax and Arlington.

I can't imagine any other Republican hopeful doing this, with the possible exception of Vance. We've waited for - how many years, now? Twenty? Thirty? - for Republicans to turn and charge the Democrats, and it's finally happening. I don't know how long it will last, but it's a glorious thing to see.