Let’s talk about how it came to be that Democrats, with concurrent majorities and multiple huge challenges before them, may pass nothing, and even seem unsure how they’re going to stop the minority party from plunging the country into an economic calamity. mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi…
Zoom out far enough and it becomes clear that the difficulties Democrats have had enacting Joe Biden's agenda don't all stem from historical accidents. crooked.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=88… 
The main problem as I see it is the party constituted itself around an appeal to the median voter rooted in bipartisanship and moderation, which has primed frontline members to be scared of governing resolutely, and emboldened centrist members to hijack the party's agenda
Even if we come through these legislative crises OK, we should use the experience as an opportunity to ask whether we should expect more savviness from our leaders.
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A popularism of appealing to non-college white suburban men in their 50s seems to exist in tension with a popularism of kicking families making $50,000-$150,000 a year off the child tax credit, because the resulting policy polls better than the existing one.
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