I think the Democratic response is unprecedented. They always want to get these power grabs over as fast as possible. This one is getting a lot of sunlight on the agenda to “bankrupt” government by simply turning off all sources of funding and using the “crisis” created to defund programs and services that don’t help the real “entitled” classes.

A Reverse-Robin Hood: rob from the poor to feed the rich.

Knocking the safety net out from underneath the middle class
is somehow being equated with “Freedom”: as in “We are Free to ignore your needs. You are free to expect less.”

Pendulums swing and we’ll see the independent middle shift towards a more rational approach to solving problems because these solutions will only exacerbate our economic malaise.