As much as the lowering the eligibility for Biden Checks is stupid and needless both politically and in policy terms it is also important to note a certain level of focus on this unforced error becomes misleading, demoralizing and politically negligent. The big story remains ...
2/ that Joe Biden came into office proposing a relief bill that surprised almost everyone with its scale and is moving rapidly to pass that bill almost wholly intact - which I guarantee exceeded the White House's own fondest expectations. That is the big story.
3/ But if you were to listen to the Democrats' twitter dialog - which no isn't real life but does have connectivity with real political life - you could easily get the idea that the the story of the passage of COVID relief has been one of feckless capitulations to neo-liberal ...
4/ orthodoxies getting us to early March with a pyrrhic victory for a bill which has been gutted of most of its worthwhile features. That's nonsense. The big story remains a $1.9T relief bill which is big and expansive in its scope. That is both the reality of the situation ...
5/ and a reality which it would constitute negligence for Democrats not to be consistently messaging both to themselves and to voters.
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