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Well, with a government funding deadline coming up on September 30th, shut down brinksmanship

now finds itself at the center of populist politics once again.

But of course, Sucker, we're not talking about Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, although we'll get

to them in just a moment.

We're talking about Ezra Klein.

We're talking about progressives in the House and in the Senate who now face quite an

interesting decision to fund the government or not to fund the government to cooperate with

Republicans or to push for a shutdown and rally the troops.

Let's go ahead and put up on the screen this Ezra Klein op-ed, which was

everywhere. You've probably already seen it, actually. This is C-1. Actually, we're going to play a

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