i wrote an article on october fifth entitled, the actual human stakes of the reconciliation bill are being ignored in favor of left versus moderate horse race coverage. It just winds up being a big, scary number, which also has everything to do with deficit worries that are trotted out time and again. Because if something's an abstract number, people don't give a shit. And so there was a couple of pulling firms who pulled every each individual item on this quotem progressive wish list, which we'll get into later. But then when you ask people, do you think we should lower our budget, they say, yes,. These two things are in contradiction by design.
In this News Brief, we recapped how, in the face of a once in a generation opportunity to relieve poverty and address curb climate change, US media largely gave us personality, Horse Race coverage, and defensive snark–– aiding conservatives efforts to winnow down the bill to a fraction of its original size.