on it's face, but only on the assumption that it's better to have peaceful coexistence with brutal austerity than it is to grab yer pitchforks and rise up against it.
in the short term he's right, but you want trump to generate as angry a backlash as possible so you can organize around it. preventing trump from doing awful things just restricts the reaction to him.
you don't want to stop him from shutting down the government so you don't have to fight him, you want to let him do it and then fight him to stop him.