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How to message a shutdown

Anat Shenker-Osorio weighs in

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Anand Giridharadas
Oct 02, 2025
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We have a vigorous debate going in The Ink’s subscriber chat, about how Democrats should talk about the government shutdown. Are they right to make it all about healthcare, or, in centering an important but traditional policy disagreement, are they normalizing the abnormal and undermining their own argument that this administration is making a dangerous…

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