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Originally Posted by albionmoonlight
For 8 years of Obama, the Dems tried to reach out and compromise. They negotiated against themselves and took less than they wanted in order to reach out in a real bipartisan way.
And they got called radical and socialist and partisan and overly political.
So, having learned that no matter what they do, the GOP will call them radical (and the media will dutifully repeat the line), the Dems have (it seems) decided to start doing what they think will result in the best policy outcomes.
The GOP brought this on themselves. They have somehow managed to make the Democrats--the Democrats--into semi-competent politicians.
Had they been willing to throw the Black President half of a bone now and then, they'd have the Dems as the GOP-lite party. But they couldn't even do that.
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I think this is all spot on. No matter who the Democrats line up, whether Biden or Bernie or Marx or
they will be labeled a communist, socialist, and Antifa (still not sure why being anti-fascist is seen a bad thing, but here we are). The Democrats best pathway to retaining and growing their majority and their value is to demonstrate that government can still function. Today's Republicans seem like their top priority is to break the government so that they can say that the government is dysfunctional and does not work. I think Sherrod Brown, a few months ago, said that the best way to regain the goodwill of the people is to govern well. Most of the Republicans currently in power are not interested in seeing that happen right now.