{"id":19703,"date":"2025-09-27T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19703"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:58:08","slug":"ezra-klein-when-a-shutdown-is-the-only-option-the-bulwark-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19703","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Klein: When A Shutdown is the Only Option | The Bulwark Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I think you&#8217;re having a shutdown because there are masked men in the streets; I think you&#8217;re having a shutdown because the FCC is using its powers to silence comedians; I think you&#8217;re having a shutdown because Donald Trump is weaponizing the workings of the federal government into something that is like what we see in Hungary; I think you&#8217;re having a shutdown because we are in fundamentally abnormal political circumstances and a shutdown is one of very few ways for Democrats to yell really loudly, &#8216;stop, this is some kind of emergency&#8230;we are going to try to throw ourselves in front of this truck&#8217;. Even if healthcare polls well&#8230;I think on some level, both your people and the public&#8230;know that this is not really about healthcare.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ezra Klein: When A Shutdown is the Only Option | The Bulwark Podcast\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUAGkuq48zY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think you&#8217;re having a shutdown because there are masked men in the streets; I think you&#8217;re having a shutdown because the FCC is using its powers to silence comedians; I think you&#8217;re having a shutdown because Donald Trump is weaponizing the workings of the federal government into something that is like what we see in Hungary; I think you&#8217;re having a shutdown because we are in fundamentally abnormal political circumstances and a shutdown is one of very few ways for Democrats to yell really loudly, &#8216;stop, this is some kind of emergency&#8230;we are going to try to throw ourselves in front of this truck&#8217;. Even if healthcare polls well&#8230;I think on some level, both your people and the public&#8230;know that this is not really about healthcare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iUAGkuq48zY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,660,221,490,1817,1103,170],"class_list":["post-19703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-ezra-klein","tag-government-shutdown","tag-shutdowns","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19704,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19703\/revisions\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}