This does not however make it any more palatable, nor reflect any more positively on a populace will to (re)elect people willing to engage in such destructive brinkmanship.
I regularly travel to the US for work but with every visit my originally burning desire to move ebbs further. Between a political class willing to destroying the functioning of your own government over a petty squabble and a terrifyingly out of control security state even visiting is increasingly feeling like a bad idea.