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During this month’s federal government shutdown, Republicans were ruthlessly insistent on worsening inequalities in the name of breaking or shaking up the system.

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“If the Republicans are so insistent on sticking it to their own voters on this issue,” they said, “why don’t the Democrats just let them?”

Considering neither party had a better option, and both were insistent that a deal would get done, the subsequent talks have taken some time.

Each bite tastes like a season in itself — sweet, comforting and stubbornly insistent that summer doesn’t have to leave all at once.