Daryl Campbell

It's pretty clear that someone got the memo from the Heritage Foundation because all of these right-leaning publications, not just Fox News but some other think tanks, have been blogging pretty extensively for the past couple weeks about politics.

privatization is the only way.

This is exactly why we're pro-privatization, because they see the political environment as receptive to it.

And this is the third shutdown in six months.

So people will have it very fresh in their memory that if they pay attention to nothing else about airport security and the FAA and airplane crashes, the average person's experience is going to be closer to, I had to wait for three hours, so TSA is terrible, than the

Oh, there's a lot of nuance to the vagaries of budgeting.

I mean, it's not a terrible question.

It did take that to really relook at airport security.

But...

If you think about the experience of these TSA workers, they've had these three shutdowns in the last six months, and the high call-out rates suggest to me that they are starting to think about alternatives.

And so maybe the crisis is these TSA workers being so vocal about how unhappy they are that it forces people to actually pay attention for a change.

I do think it feels like there's something tangibly different about the public willingness to pay attention to this particular shutdown that wasn't there two or three ago, specifically because now people are understanding, okay, this doesn't have to happen.

It didn't happen for...

The 20 years prior to the Trump administration, now something is going on and it's tied to the politics of what's happening today.

And maybe that's what it's going to take to really rally politicians around it, even if Trump himself wants to keep using this as a political football.

The captain has made a decision. The first officer understands it's wrong. But the first officer doesn't have the ability to speak up about it.

The captain has made a decision. The first officer understands it's wrong. But the first officer doesn't have the ability to speak up about it.

The captain has made a decision. The first officer understands it's wrong. But the first officer doesn't have the ability to speak up about it.

My name's Daryl Campbell. I'm an aviation safety writer for The Verge and author of Fatal Abstraction, how the manager of... Fuck shit, I fucked that up. All right, we got it out of the way. I'll do it again. Why the managerial class loses control of software.

My name's Daryl Campbell. I'm an aviation safety writer for The Verge and author of Fatal Abstraction, how the manager of... Fuck shit, I fucked that up. All right, we got it out of the way. I'll do it again. Why the managerial class loses control of software.