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  1. …in reply to @NinaBernstein1
    @NinaBernstein1 @JillAbramson Only by people who are not good at reading comprehension. this is not about (false) moral equivalence. It is an empirical fact that for the government to reopen via the normal budget process, either Trump or Dems would have to decide to capitulate on wall spending.
    1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
      @NinaBernstein1 @JillAbramson + the whole thing is a meditation on the tradeoffs between a realistic way out of the immediate jam, which is causing increasing real-world damage to people and the economy and threatens to go on indefinitely, at the cost of longer-term constitutional norm/rule-of-law damage.