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"Symone Sanders got it immediately: 'The hostage taking worked.' That’s the lesson Trump learned last night. That’s why Chris Murphy is right to fear Trump gets stronger, not weaker. When you teach authoritarians that threatening to hurt people produces Democratic capitulation, you haven’t minimized damage—you’ve guaranteed more hostage situations."
~ Mike Brock
#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/10
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/chuck-schumer-doesnt-know-what-time
"A deal that doesn't reduce health care costs is a betrayal of millions of Americans counting on Democrats to fight for them.
Republicans want health care cuts.
Accepting nothing but a pinky promise from Republicans isn't a compromise — it's capitulation.
Millions of families would pay the price."
~ Greg Casar quoted by Aaron Parnas
#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/3
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-evening-news-update-5d3
"I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the deal Senate Democrats’ Team Cave made with the Republican Senate caucus tonight. This is an embarrassing deal, a deal to basically settle for nothing. It’s particularly galling since it comes only days after the Democrats crushed Republicans across the country."
~ Josh Marshall
#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/4
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-quick-take-on-team-caves-big-win
"Election Day not only showed that Democrats had payed [sic] no price for the shutdown. It also confirmed the already abundant evidence that it has been deeply damaging for Donald Trump. But even with all this, I think the overall situation and outcome is basically fine."
"What’s most perplexing about the decision of these eight caucusing Democrats to fold now is the timing.
According to the grisly political scoring of the shutdown blame game, the Democrats’ position was strengthening, not weakening. ...
But I can’t help feeling like the biggest takeaway from all this is that Donald Trump learns another lesson in the virtues of brazening it out."
~ Andrew Egger
Marcy Wheeler thinks the Democrats caved too soon:
"With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks."
#Democrats #shutdown #Trump #healthcare
/7
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/eight-senate-dems-caved-and-caved-too-early/
"Perhaps most infuriating is the betrayal of the millions and millions of Democrats who counted on a solid opposition to Trump and his congressional stooges."
~ Mark Mansour
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