It presents a nearly perfect case study of our political polarization and dysfunction. It is a microcosm of us.

It explains and laments both the right and the left. It presents them in offsetting positive and negative ways, cementing people in their directly conflicting attitudes. It renders us mobilized to fight each other and paralyzed when it comes to tolerating each other, much less cooperating.

If it does all that, it should be written about.

Early this month, the Trump administration announced it would cut $600 million from already legally allocated grant funds for public health programs.

The specific cuts affected four blue states--and only them. That led to fair speculation on the left that the Trump administration was abandoning government health care and punishing states resistant to its immigration enforcement scope and methods.

The affected states were California, Illinois, Minnesota, and Colorado. The affected grants were for such purposes as gender transition services, counseling for elderly LGBTQ persons, increasing HIV........

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