Whenever these torturous intra-Dem strategy debates break out, I like to remind people that, if the question is how to operate a decent modern society when 1 of 2 parties has become lawless illiberal authoritarians, the answer very well could be: there is no way!
Ultimately, democracy depends on a base level of social trust & fealty to a set of principles that transcend party. If half the political system abandons that, the other half may not be able to drag them along, no matter how clever its tactics.
We've settled into this fucked-up equilibrium in recent decades: the right has tantrums, violates norms, breaks laws, destroys public agencies, starves the public sector, erodes democracy ... & Dems come along to clean it up & patch it together again. That can't go on forever.
You can't legislate around that with clever budgeting tricks or parliamentary maneuvers. And however much you might want to critique Dem strategy, it can't be that one party is responsible for everything. Ultimately if the right wants to drag the whole thing down, it can & will.
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