Hysteria will doom the Dems

It’s difficult to see how it could end otherwise. Virtually no Democrats are willing to go past Aug. 2 without raising the debt ceiling. Plenty of Republicans are prepared to blow through the deadline. That’s not a dynamic that lends itself to a deal. That’s a dynamic that lends itself to a ransom.Ezra Klein

When progressives, like Klein and Yglesias, live by hysteria, they become consumed by their own hysteria. They have serious Hysterical Response Function problems.