The article calls Chuck Schumer courageous. You’ve got to be kidding me with this partisan drivel.
At the end of the day, between making it convenient for Donald to do fascism or making it inconvenient for Donald to do fascism, the obvious choice is to make it inconvenient to do fascism. Schumer and the Democrats are making it very convenient for them.
And the point is that a government shutdown would have made it more convenient for him.
Yes; I fully expect that the political beliefs of the author don’t fully align with my own but that doesn’t alter his points about the powers that Trump would gain under a shutdown.
Ignoring the way that these systems work because a symbolic showdown is more cathartic isn’t a winning strategy and, in at least this specific instance, Schumer was correct that a shutdown would remove more restrictions on what Trump could do (with a member Trump appointed who has clearly demonstrated no issue with long term strategizing and willingness to bend what’s acceptable being given a greater expansion of responsibilities under it).
These are material facts, regardless who’s pointing them out.
The article calls Chuck Schumer courageous. You’ve got to be kidding me with this partisan drivel.
At the end of the day, between making it convenient for Donald to do fascism or making it inconvenient for Donald to do fascism, the obvious choice is to make it inconvenient to do fascism. Schumer and the Democrats are making it very convenient for them.
And the point is that a government shutdown would have made it more convenient for him.
Yes; I fully expect that the political beliefs of the author don’t fully align with my own but that doesn’t alter his points about the powers that Trump would gain under a shutdown.
Ignoring the way that these systems work because a symbolic showdown is more cathartic isn’t a winning strategy and, in at least this specific instance, Schumer was correct that a shutdown would remove more restrictions on what Trump could do (with a member Trump appointed who has clearly demonstrated no issue with long term strategizing and willingness to bend what’s acceptable being given a greater expansion of responsibilities under it).
These are material facts, regardless who’s pointing them out.