The left finds itself in a new place, as an opposition party within a governing party, struggling to figure out when to oppose and when to govern. They’re practiced in opposing, spurred on by grit and grievance. And yet now, with more influence than ever before, they’ll have to learn how to do something new. Governing requires compromise, and after that it requires treating many losses as victories because they produced something good rather than nothing at all.
It’s behind a paywall. But if you don’t want to deal with that, it boils down to this: The D’s are aparently flummoxed over whether a $2,000 promise means $2,000 or $1,400.
Perfection becomes the enemy of the good.
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