Today is revealing who Pete is as clearly as anything else he's done during this campaign, and it's remarkably disappointing. This disingenuous BS is turning the Democratic vision of governing on its head. And both Pete and Lis know that, which makes it all the worse.
If you put Pete and Lis in the middle of any great moment of the expansion of the Democratic vision for America, today's argument would have been not to do more and make America better, but too do less, and expect less, and be less.
All I keep doing is transporting Pete and Lis into the era of the New Deal and the Great Society and becoming more and more disappointed in this disingenuous line of attack.
A vision of providing for all—whether it be education, health care, retirement, social security, infrastructure, transit, libraries—means all. This vision of exclusion being pushed by Pete & Lis undermines the entire Dem governing argument for WHY government should provide these.
Dems arguing that those who want to provide a service to all are "paying for billionaires" is so dispiriting to see. Pete & Lis arguing for the merits of Pete's proposal as more workable or realistic is one thing, but arguing that doing more is BAD is an awful Dem position.
It's their argument that is turning, in my words, the Democratic vision of governing on its head — not Pete's proposal in and of itself. That's why I didn't say anything about it until they decided to argue that doing more, covering all, was actually bad policy.
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