We are dangerously close to reaching peak Trump Derangement Syndrome in 2019. The Atlantic magazine made waves a few weeks ago with the digital release of its March issue. The cover artwork was simple: a call to impeach President Trump in large, red, capital letters. This published just two short weeks after Sen. Mitt Romney published a scathing Washington Post attack column, declaring the president had not risen “to the mantle of the office.”

Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., represents arguably the most gerrymandered congressional district in the country, and he wants to keep it that way. His latest piece of legislation, H.R. 1 “For the People Act,” would force taxpayers to fund congressional campaigns.

Regardless of how you feel about any given government shutdown, they do provide a great opportunity to evaluate what the government is actually doing when agencies are funded. A strong argument can be made that President Trump and his supporters should be eager to reopen the government so that the administration can continue its unprecedented work in cutting regulatory red tape.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trapped within a spectacle of her own making. After disinviting the president of the United States from delivering the State of the Union address under the false pretense of “security concerns,” the president has answered back.

The current federal government shutdown, which is the longest in United States history, was completely avoidable. The appropriations process in Congress is so incredibly broken, making it impossible for lawmakers in either chamber to return to regular order to get spending bills done on time before the end of the fiscal year. This stark inability of Congress to perform one of its most basic functions is a result of years of governing by crisis, something both Republican and Democratic leaders are guilty.