As the government shutdown extends into its fifth week, there is growing concern about when, or if, congressional Democrats will address the ongoing situation.

Recently, Los Angeles International Airport faced several hours of closure due to a shortage of air traffic controllers. This shortage is causing flight delays and cancellations across the nation, and the situation is expected to worsen if the shutdown continues.

The consequences are becoming evident in areas traditionally prioritized by Democrats: funding for food stamps (SNAP) is set to run out after this week, and the Head Start program is also at risk.

Moreover, Everett Kelley, the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the primary federal workers’ union, urged Democrats on Monday to “pass a clean continuing resolution and bring an end to this shutdown today.”

A “clean CR,” or continuing resolution, is precisely what Republicans have been advocating for since the beginning—a straightforward measure to keep government operations funded for a few additional months.

If this keeps up, northern Virginia’s vast ranks of furloughed government workers (or ones working without pay) may take out their ire on Abigail Spanberger, the Dems’ candidate for governor; it’d serve her right.

For all their claims to be fighting for more health-care spending (which alternate with BS about how it’s the Republicans who shut down most federal operations), everyone knows why Democrats really shut down the government: Because their base, and most of their big donors, are furious that Republicans are in charge.

Never mind that the GOP’s calling the shots because it won the last election, including House and Senate majorities: The party that’s spent the last decade claiming to defend “democracy” apparently thinks that word actually means “we get our way.”

Worse, the folks calling the shots plainly don’t much care about the real-world costs to non-elite Democrats: The party’s more humble voters apparently must suffer in the name of Fighting Trump.

Mind you, Democrats lost that last election because most voters saw them as captive to the party’s increasingly weird elites — yet now they’re doubling down on the same behavior.

Do they want to keep losing?