Thread by @paulkrugman

As Biden moves toward Phase 2, infrastructure spending paid for in part by taxes on the rich, he'll once again be doing very much what the public wants. Infrastructure is very popular 1/ news.gallup.com/opinion/pollin…

So are higher taxes on the rich 2/ news.gallup.com/poll/1714/taxe…

So when Democrats give in to the 70-80% of voters who think we should be spending more on infrastructure, th 62% who think the rich should pay more taxes (69% say the same about corporations), will they be lambasted for not being bipartisan? 3/

Yes, they will. But that tells you more about the uselessness of bipartisanship as a goal in and of itself than about reflecting the will of the people 4/