How easy it is for the Democrat left to fool Republicans, even some conservatives, by foisting their word choices on everybody. A conspicuous example of this is the term “government shutdown.”
The words “government shutdown” conjure up a vision of a Federal government in its entirety falling into a black hole for who knows how long. Oh, what a cataclysm! The nation, the world will collapse into total meltdown! Oh! Oh! Oh!