Due to complications arising from a holiday weekend and time zone differences, our weekend blogger hasn’t been able to get our publishing platform to work this morning, but we should have it resolved very shortly. Please stay tuned. And you can treat this as an open thread to discuss issues among yourselves, okay?

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.