Let’s talk realistically for a minute. Once flights resume, snap is returned, people go back to work, and everything settles down, what do you think the public—just regular people who don’t follow politics seriously—will recall about the shutdown? They will recall that it is about healthcare and that the democrats “lost.” Now, what will this same public think when premiums skyrocket? They will think: republicans did this. I’m not trying to be overly partisan here, I’m just pointing out what will realistically happen. What is the conservative plan? What is the proposal to replace the ACA outside of Trump’s vague idea about sending everyone money in the mail? This will all be in conjunction, more than likely, with grocery prices that haven’t declined and, if current inflation holds, have only increased. Tariffs will obviously not have yet brought back factories and will not have “kicked in” in any meaningful way for the consumer, who will still be paying tariff prices for at least some goods. It all just seems like a crazy cocktail of frustration for the American public, and I don’t see how republicans avoid being the source of that frustration. For the sake of this discussion, let’s assume that we will have a free and fair midterm. What do you see happening long term?
>>521066352Eat shit faggot. The expiry of the COVID subsidies only affects ~7% of the US population.
>>521066352democrats caved and admitted fault for it by doing so. That said, their antics have still cost the country a lot in terms of GDP and economics. So fuck them forever.
>>521066523Putting aside my shit-eating for a moment, you don’t think premiums will increase in any meaningful way?
>>521066753>admitted fault for it I think you’re missing the point. Hypothetically, the Trump administration could still be in the wrong and “win” through a refusal to negotiate. It’s difficult to “win” if your opponent is willing to ask the Supreme Court to stop feeding people. Simply conceding by itself is not an admission of wrongdoing. There’s no logic there.
I think they said something like 80% of the media took the democrats position, so that's most likely what the average person will take away. They won't even stop for a second to try and think about it.
>>521066973The cooler heads prevailed because they saw what the party was doing was just wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5Jw4TCfrQ
Republicucks just doing their usual frog and the scorpion shit of getting elected on populism and then doing cuckservatism
Dems held the country hostage in order to give ten of millions of illegals free health care. They were even willing to let disadvantaged Americans starve over it. The only reason why they folded is because they lost the pr war to trump.
>>521067118American by and large have developed a deep-seated mistrust of mainstream media. We don't gobble up our government's anus like germans do.
