The collapse of a deal to end the partial government shutdown and more fallout from the war in Iran

give us a lot to talk about this Friday. And for that, we turn to Brooks and Marcus. That's the

Atlantic's David Brooks and Ruth Marcus of the New Yorker. Jonathan Kfarred is away this evening.

So we wake up to the news that overnight, the Senate Republicans and the Democrats have cut a deal.

Unanimous passed by unanimous consent.

Then a few hours later, the Speaker of the House calls it a joke, says he can't vote for it.

David, what do you make of all this?

Oh, we'll get to watch the decline of American democracy in real time.

You know, I thought the Democrats were wrong to start this thing.

I think if you don't like what the opposing party does, you go to the voters and you try to beat

the other party in the next election. You don't shut down the government. But it turns out

the Republicans who haven't learned Democracy 101 either, because when you only control 50% of the

House, sometimes you have to compromise to make the ship run. And the House Republicans

apparently don't understand that. And so they're unwilling to go up with the Senate compromise,

which was a compromise. And it had some things Republicans didn't like. But guess what? That's

politics. And so to me, what's happening in the country is that people are not saying who's right

and who wrong is this, are we blaming

the Democrats or they're blaming the Republicans.

They're saying the whole ruling class is screwed up.

The entire elite establishment of this country cannot run things.

And so that impulse, which has been building for decades, is what got Donald Trump elected.

And if we continue to see Americans looking at their ruling class and saying,

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