Right. It's all contextual. I am a moderate in Canada. I would not be a moderate in...many countries.

Though I do think abundance is a good thing (I am not particularly versed in that discourse or personally invested in Ezra Klein...).

I think I agree with this, in the American context at least. It's hard to truly be a moderate in a hyper-polarized two-party system. Plenty of legitimate (and not weird!) moderates in Canada still.

Look, the defectors might have got played. But, haha, we tricked you into letting us cut healthcare may not be the strategic loss it sounds like?

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Definitely not an ideal landing. At the same time, desdlines were looming on things like SNAP, air travel getting real hairy. Not shocking to me there are 8 Ds without the pain tolerance to keep this running.

Anyways, just my two cents. I don't know that the freakout today is justified. You can keep the government closed forever without real life pain. If Ds managed to get a well timed political bump and shift the focus on healthcare into the midterms, maybe they played a bad hand not terribly?

I'm not a campaign strategist. But seems like Ds can frame this all as they are trying to make the government work, while Rs are trying to burn it down. It's a coherent narrative, resilient to the facts. It also bridges kitchen table and democracy issues.

The snow part was surprising!

Same. I looked out the plane window yesterday and thought I'd landed during the one and only snowy day of November. Looking forward to the resumption/start? of falll weather.

I landed right at the peak of the storm yesterday! Pilot said something about snow in advance, but I wasn't anticipating a full-on blizzard in November!