Readers Thoughts #1

Of a federal employee. TPM reader XX1anonymized initials and part of the letter which notes that the government agency has deleted for obvious reasons …

I write here to agree with your latest blog articles on the closure. You put it in prose with precision what I tried to move on to so many local political allies who too think about an unrelevant thoroughness. They focus on the moment of combat, the details of the substance, etc. None of this matter, as I was apparent to me. It is in fact a match to fight against the arms, purely a battle on power. The objective of the Democrats should be to extract a material concession which resonates with the great masses as a “public good”, and they do it with the subsidies of the ACA. Successfully extracting a concession is a material victory which slightly restores a little balance of powers, and blocks Trump’s efforts to totalitarian control.