I think the Republican party are starting to realise Trump is in it for Trump, he doesn't care about the damage it may do to the party, they were just used to get him where the Heritage Foundation could use him to apply the latest Think Tank ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
It is obvious he isn't the one coming up with the policies, his social media ramblings show just how much thinking he is capable of .... It's all just an extension of his bid for fame in the TV show The Apprentice, but that one was produced by people who knew how to manipulate an image .... for some reason, Trump still thinks he is the TV star and everyone hangs of every word he says ....
This govt shutdown is designed to blind the real reason he doesn't want any govt agencies actually doing what they do well, crunching numbers and publishing facts .... the real ones, not the Donald Trump Fake News/Facts that he wants everyone to believe .....
Add to that, he is hoping it will give the sanitisers time to remove and harmful connection between the Trump family and Epstein .... the bits coming out regarding Malania, the trophy wife, would shatter the illusion even further ..... he is the hero in his head, those that followed him like a god are starting to see just how mistaken they were to even listen to anything he says ......
The only good things to come out of it, the USA has lost its world dominance in the eyes of every other country by Trump ending all the Good Buddy relationships the previous govts had established and nurtured ...... The US has been broke both financially and industrially for a long while, Trump was still of the illusion the US had power over other countries ..... they are now discovering the world does not rotate around the USA or that they rely on it to be the USA to stabilise the world monetary system .....
T1 Terry