Good comments from Jay & Joy & good discussion under here. One thing I'd add: in US politics & media, "bipartisanship" is always see through the filter of Murc's Law, which says that only Dems have agency. If Ds refuse to cooperate w/ Rs, they've failed bipartisanship. Whereas...
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1382396004255817730
...if Rs refuse to cooperate with Ds ... Ds have failed bipartisanship. If Rs go crazy, get racist, filibuster everything, make utterly ludicrous demands, fail to budge on anything meaningful, it's because Ds were mean to them, or asked them wrong, or didn't schmooze them enough.
When VSPs call on Ds to be bipartisan, they're calling on Ds to *make Rs behave less crazy*. Rs are not responsible adults making their own choices, they are mere effects of D actions, mere reactors. Only Ds have volition. They're the adults, responsible for themselves AND Rs.
Also, as numerous people have pointed out, there's a parallel here to the dynamics of abusive relationships. It is entirely her responsibility to maintain calm & positivity; if he beats her, it's evidence that she failed to do that. His abusiveness is her fault.
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