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"Whose fault is the shutdown" is kind of a weird way to approach it, when you think about it. Really, the government shuts down because one side wants A and the other side wants B and they can't or won't compromise, so it's the fault of both.
At the end of the day, the side that wants the less popular thing should get blamed. In this case that's easily the Republicans.
It depends on how you look at it, but since Republicans have control of every branch of the government, the fact they can't break the shutdown looks really bad.
Republicans just need to sway something like 5 democrats across all three branches of the government and can't. You could argue it's the democrats being intransigent, but it's not like democratic constituents aren't hurting.
What all this really means is that even though Republicans control everything, they are hated so fiercely that democrats can hold their position without losing support. It seems the opposite isn't true and republican constituents are getting angry. That seems as close to winning/losing you can get.
also the the democrats demands are reasonable, bordering on limp wristed. the republicans labeling them as radical leftist demands are patently absurd. even Marjory Taylor Green is advocating for what the democrats are demanding right now.
the populace blames the republicans because you can try to rig the game but you can't fake influence.