Thread by @whstancil

There is so much fear and anger and energy for change bottled up in the Dem coalition right now, and it has nowhere to go because many elected Dems PREFER a world in which they are powerless to one where they take risks, so they play helpless constantly

https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1398343540862816256?s=21

Elected Dems want to keep their voters on the endless treadmill of campaign donations and turnout drives, and they never ever want to stick their neck out and fight the final boss of Trumpian authoritarianism, so no matter what voters do, the princess is always in another castle

First it was that we didn’t hold either house so we couldn’t obstruct, then investigations or impeachment would backfire, then they wouldn’t listen to subpoenas so why bother, then we needed to focus on the election, or had to show voters we could get things done

Then we needed to move on, or focus on the pandemic, or we needed impeachment to be brief and narrow so not to be “confusing,” or didn’t want to seem partisan, or the filibuster, or it’s Manchin or Sinema, or our voters are different from their voters, or malapportionment

There’s always some structural or tactical or legislative obstacle down the line to blame. Nothing happens but it is never, ever, ever any top Democrat’s fault. They are merely doing the best they can with the circumstances. Re-elect them, maybe it’ll be better next time