The panel is back. ruth marcus, we were just joking that it is like being a spectator now for an intraparty panel. it s so nice to be at other people s holiday tables and watch other dysfunctional nam families. what do you make of what you heard there? i said in the last segment we knew this day was coming with the special county and they knew this day was coming also. you would have competing imperatives within the party, and this one, i think that democrats had to play the hand that they were dealt. so that they failed to, or decided in previous it rations of the continuing resolution not to push it to the max. they said move on, liberal groups. hispanic groups, they needed to just wait it out and they would
This, help us understand what we can do we hear every day on our show people yearning for humidity, yearning for less toxicity, and yet our political discourse, social media, it is so toxic. what are we to do? i think we ought to return to the nativity scene that many of us have in our homes. i think what s happened in america is an idolotry of power. i don t just mean at the national political level but in our social media disputes, sometimes even in the sorts of arguments that we have around our dinner tables and our holiday tables. the idea of having to get one up on one another, to be seen as right. and i think instead to see one another as part of a common humanity and also to see that there are things more important than temporal power. and i think christmas reminds us of what those things are in the giving of jesus christ as the