This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. No one does blame better than Washington. No one fears it more, either. The quickly unspooling banking crisis—sparked by the out-of-nowhere collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the subsequent panic about other regional lenders and the world banking system at large—triggered D.C.’s reactive instincts to duck and weave. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But here’s the thing: most Americans don’t really care who is to blame or to credit.