MSNBC“Protecting people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts,” she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Tuesday evening. Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesBut Ocasio-Cortez said he should be, because the president and the Republican Party are weaker than they look. MSNBCAdvertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement“What they rely on is the impression of power, the perception of inevitability, in us giving up in advance,” she said. “Donald Trump is at record levels of unpopularity in his tenure,” she added. She wasn’t having it:MSNBC / @AcynOcasio-Cortez is also not worried about Trump’s threat to use a shutdown to fire federal workers.