Democratic leaders have focused far too much on process and decorum while explaining the government shutdown to voters. By instead emphasizing politics over bureaucratic machinations, Bernie Sanders and AOC are showing how it should be done.

The federal government shut down operations deemed nonessential on Wednesday over an impasse about whether to continue subsidies for buying health insurance at current levels. The stakes are high. In the short term, 750,000 federal workers will be furloughed each day. Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested that he’ll take the opportunity to make deep and permanent cuts to the federal workforce, so they’ll also have to hope they get their jobs back when it’s all over. Hundreds of thousands more whose jobs are deemed essential are expected to keep workin

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