Would a Govt Shutdown Fight Authoritarianism?

Democrats in the Senate are debating whether to allow the
government to shut down when it runs out of funding later this
month.


On Today's Show:


Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox and
the author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most
Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World (PublicAffairs,
2024), talks about what's at stake in the debate over whether to
go along with the Republican plan to fund the government or
withhold their votes in protest.