Trump Derangement Syndrome is increasingly driving Democrats into an angry, isolated corner.

Last Friday, Democratic senators blocked a continuing budget resolution that would avoid a government shutdown on October 1.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democrats have demanded taxpayer-funded health insurance for illegal aliens, a half a billion in restored funding for NPR and PBS, and a $1.5 trillion spending increase. But some Democratic members are privately grumbling that such demands make it likely that they will be blamed for any shutdown. At least one is saying so publicly.

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman thinks a government shutdown would be a mistake, and plans to vote for a House-passed continuing resolution to keep federal departments operating into November. “If Democrats truly believe we’re on a rocket sled to autocracy, why would we hand a shuttered government over to Trump and (the) wood chipper at the OMB?” Fetterman said.

He noted that a shutdown would give President Trump the right to decide which government services are essential. “I’m unwilling to vote for mass chaos and run that risk,” Fetterman said in chiding his fellow Democrats.

He noted that Senator Schumer understood all that as recently as last March when he voted to fund the federal government for six months because “government experts are rightly worried that a temporary shutdown could lead to permanent cuts.”

Trump Derangement Syndrome is increasingly driving Democrats into an angry, isolated corner. And that may be just the place that President Trump would like them to stand.