I would guess that we’re all in pretty much the same boat with that question right now. I don’t have any answers except to say that this is a serious crisis and it’s hard to see a way out. It’s overwhelming mostly because the entire Republican Party has signed on and they hold all the institutional power. (We’re about to find out if they at completely willing to castrate the judiciary as thoroughly as they castrated themselves.) Josh Marshall addresses a couple of the big questions in his piece today. The first that’s commonly asked is whether or not this strategy of holding up the budget and/or the debt ceiling really makes any sense in light of the fact that the Republicans and the White House are all liars and we can almost bet on them reneging on any deal that’s made and not even attempt to make it look legitimate. Might makes right, right? Marshall says the key is for Democrats to remember that it’s Trump who needs a deal not them. He offers a few ideas, such as very short term CRs to keep the issue on the front burner but makes it clear that they simply must not take ownership of this problem (a problem Trump does understand is his because, as you’ll recall, he begged the Congress to raise the debt ceiling before the inauguration.) The second question he gets all the time is why “The Resistance” doesn’t seem to have materialized. He points out quite…