they didn't try to step out there with anything particularly controversial to say. and they did not lead with their chins. and that is a danger the democrats sometimes fall prey to. that doesn't mean the squad should shut up. i actually think they responded very well in this situation. and they have a lot of interesting things to say, but they might be smart not to say get into a fight about israel or something like that right now which can be its own form of distraction. the squad when they responded were quite right that what trump was doing was distracting from the real issues. they don't want to also -- they should not want to also distract. and i think if they can be politically disciplined, and they've shown some signs of it in recent days, that this will be disastrous for trump next year, because unlike a lot of other trump controversies, send them back is really easy to