The Shutdown Isn't a Stalemate It's a Power Grab. And the Media Are Missing It.
The shutdown is a deliberate Republican strategy to centralize executive power, with Russ Vought using unilateral spending cuts as a dry run to reshape federal authority.
The capitulation of the US media is not an aberration
American democracy faces unprecedented peril as executive power consolidation, information manipulation, and selective concealment of evidence threaten free and fair elections.