there’s not enough consensus in congress at the moment to make any of them give up their vacation time, so writing columns about the invading hoards of caravans isn’t going to give you a lot of traction for the next month
1. elite media finds a herd issue
2. elected dems (usually backbenchers) read the columns about it
3. columnists know electeds are reading, write more columns
4. panic sets in
5. columnists want to keep the panic going
>>> you are here
6. electeds do something fatally stupid
