This shutdown will end sooner than the last one. Air traffic controllers will ensure it does. Within the next few weeks, a few will call in sick. Then the flight delays will cascade. Then, pressure will suddenly mount on the WH and Republicans in Congress to end it. Why on the White House and congressional Republicans and not on congressional Democrats? Because Republicans now control the government — the presidency, both chambers of Congress, and, effectively, the Supreme Court. They own it. They and Trump will be blamed for the shutdown, and they’ll have to get the nation out of it