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Democrats Didn't Cave. They Saved People from Needless Suffering.

The Democratic message should be clear: We care about people's pain. Republicans couldn’t care less.

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Robert S. McElvaine
Nov 16, 2025
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Illustration by Abdelafatah Mukhtar

“What, WE worry about the people suffering?”

My initial reaction to the reports that a sufficient number of Democratic senators had “caved” to the Republicans to bring an end to the government shutdown was, “Not again! What the fuck is wrong with them?”

Upon further reflection, I see it a little differently. The fact tha…

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Author, historian, feminist, believer in democracy—placing current developments in historical context. Author of 11books. Current book project: “An Agreed-Upon Fiction—The creation of the ‘Inferior’ Sex: Hoe It Misshaped History & the Present.”
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