Given that "productive" in this case means stripping away freedoms and paving the way for an autocracy run by the worst people in the world for a rich oligarchy; along with the usual and more bipartisan production efforts of harvesting borrowed money from the federal government for their pals; this is the best case scenario.

The last thing we want is for these traitors to be productive.

I do wonder though, congress' approval rating has been even lower than the presidents' for at least a decade now, I wonder if prez finally is less popular than even them. Let me check...

Not even close: 'Presidential approval: 38%: Congressional approval: 24%: Direction of country: 30%: Generic congressional vote: +8 Democrats.' From Ballotpedia on the search page.