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I was able to connect live yesterday with the writer and civil-rights lawyer Will Stancil for a conversation about Senate Democrats and their increasingly miserable navigation of the government-funding standoff.
He wrote an interesting piece on Tuesday [ [link removed] ] arguing Democrats should make a single, potent demand in exchange for their votes to pass new appropriations. Though we agree on merits, he makes the case for a somewhat different approach than the one I’ve been pressing [ [link removed] ]. We discussed points of agreement and disagreement, and then parlayed that into an examination of why Democrats in Congress keep returning inexorably to doomed kitchen-table strategies. How their risk aversion, and lack of facility with basic math, conspire to create insanity—doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
It was a good conversation, and I hope you enjoy it. ...

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