Brian Beutler has some useful thoughts on how to focus as we confront this complicated crisis. He writes: To my mind we have four main kinds of provocation raining down on us: headfakes, attacks on liberal pluralism, policy sabotage, and genuine constitutional crises. In the headfakes category he has Greenland, The Panama Canal and other grandiose ideas that may or may not happen or could just as easily be like the 25% tariffs which make a big splash but end up just being PR moves for Trump to declare victory. The attacks on liberal pluralism are all the heinous assaults on DEI, transgender kids, immigrants etc which makes us want to scream but which he says, and I think he’s right, still fit into the category of normal politics even though they are grotesque, cruel and disgusting which is not unprecedented. He says, and he’s right about this too, that a lot of this is bait to make us focus on that while they destroy the very firmament of our government and democracy. And these are all wedge issues designed to create division among Democrats. The policy sabotage is something he thinks that elected Democrats are well-equipped to focus on and it’s what they’re good at (if they want to be.) I could see the House Democrats just calling a complete halt to any negotiations over the budget and debt ceiling. He writes: That’s the electoral side of this which is extremely important since we have to hope that the…