I feel too despondent to go deep in the fact that eight Dems caved and broke the filibuster on the shutdown. Supposedly they got some kind of gentleman’s agreement that the Republicans would allow a vote on the ACA in December. Whoopie.
I think this is probably a reasonable take on the whole thing, which shows it wasn’t a total rout. But they were the ones who made the subsidies their primary demand and they didn’t get it.
The CR is good until January so the Congress will have their precious holidays. We know how important that is. And that’s assuming the House and Trump agree to any of this.
The Trump roller coaster is getting wilder. We didn’t even get a full week of feeling like we have a chance to push back the fascist tide before our own leadership surrendered again. But that’s the way it goes in this era. Trump’s probably on the upswing again and God knows what hell he’s going to inflict on us.