From my Shoutbox posts:
Listening to radio while driving to work this morning I heard the top of the hour network "news" guy use the phrase "Day # of the government shut down". I know the intent is to gin up urgency and panic, but as people see their lives progressing pretty much as normal during the "shut down", I think MSM fear-mongering could backfire. IOW, Trump could be defanging the Ds' fear-mongering tactic, just by not caving and letting the MSM do their futile best to whip up hysteria.
And since the next election campaign is over a year away, people will have seen all the clearer how little the dread "shut down" actually meant.