I won't be happy. Last government shutdown saw our national parks get destroyed by visitors due to the lack of enforcement as well as certain businesses taking advantage of the brief shutdown to illegally harvest resources from the parks.

Honestly there are two paths to removing a fascist dictator: General strike that marches onto the Capitol and hold those accountable, or 2A as the Founding Fathers explicitly detailed and intended for The People to use.

Before some numbnut goes "hurr wot can people do" forgot the recent uprising in the Phillipines, Brazil prosecuting their dictator, and going further back how America gained independence from the British ala guerrilla warfare.

"The government" can be your hyperlocal full-participation commune council. OPs post is specifically about the US federal government, not governance in general. Eventually that machine is going to break itself irreparably (Some may argue it already has), and seeds need to be ready to grow from it's corpse so that as few people as possible fall down through the gap in support.