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The Debt Ceiling
The debt ceiling, on some level require imagination in a way that inflation doesn't. I think the same thing, like on economic issues, we haven't done a good enough job of explaining to people what Republican extremism actually will result in. The politics were pretty bad for Republicans last time they tried to do it. Of the shutdown. That's a very different issue. And so two weeks before the election, making this argument around a debt ceiling, a concept they never fully grasped the last time we went through this fight and how bad it could be. They ended up blinking.