From the site guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." Regardless what they actually say, political material like this is an excus

From the site guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." Regardless what they actually say, political material like this is an excuse to start a tribal argument. Nothing is going to be said here about health care or transatlantic relations that hasn't been repeated ad nauseam elsewhere, and the oppositional vibe lingers. HN gets less useful for everyone as a result.