Alex Wagner

Like they will weaponize every part of the federal bureaucracy to have a partisan fight with Democrats.

They have a president who's utterly reckless and they have a real sociopath.

Who's like picking and choosing which blue states to fuck over hardest, given an opportunity to shrink the federal workforce in a period of like government shutdown.

So, you know, I do think of some real leverage here.

Having said that, I mean, Dan, the polling is good for Democrats on the issue of health care for right now.

And I think, again, I go back to what I said at the beginning.

I think it's good that that's what the stories have to lead with.

This is why Democrats are doing this, because this is the reality for Democrats.

Many people, if not the majority of Americans who are on either the exchanges or whose insurance premiums are going to rise, which is like everybody who's in a pool that's affected by fewer healthy people being in the pool.

So is a lot of the country.

So, you know, I think they at least for the moment have a hand to play and on an issue that really matters.

Yeah, totally.

Can you just put that on my voicemail so I can play it like tomorrow or next Monday?

That's what we need.

But also it gets at kind of beliefs that the American public hold about each party.

And I think that Democrats have an advantage there, right?

Like it is sort of a truism in American politics that Democrats...

care more about people.

Sometimes that comes back to bite them in the ass or seen as caring about too many people or too small a group of people in too big a fashion or caring over being strategic with the nation's finances or whatever it is.

I'm not saying any of that's necessarily true.