On October 7, 2013, President Barack Obama took the podium at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and made the case to the American people that compromise, not ideological showdown, was what the country needed.
America was in the midst of a weeks-long government shutdown, a fiasco triggered by the Republican Party's demand to defund the Affordable Care Act in exchange for funding the government, and Obama's remarks from that moment are worth reading today. They show how much the Democratic Party has changed — and how much it hasn't:
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