• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Even Kevin McCarthy knew when it was time to back down when it came to the debt ceiling fight. When push comes to shove in issues like this, the GOP have historically threatened a default right up until the very last second and then backed down. Most of the time, the threats are little more than red meat for their base and they know (even if they don’t want to publicly say it) that if they were to attempt to follow through on their threats, the results would be significantly worse for everybody.