The story of the last 30 years of Dem politics: Dems use austerity policy to respond to Republican "tax & spend" critiques, only to find that a) those policies don't work & b) Republican critiques only escalated. Lose-lose.
https://twitter.com/JerryJonesNAEH/status/1478011012989206529
Adding: it feels like Dems this round learned their lesson & support a better approach, as evidenced by their passage of the CTC & the subsequent halving of child poverty. They've figured out how to actually slash poverty, cheaply! And now ... Manchin won't let them. 😒
Dems will have accomplished a ton from 20-22, esp. if they can get some form of the BBB across the finish line. The painful part is that they were sooo close, collectively, to really really going for it, FDR-style, & were stopped (or at least impeded) by a tiny handful of jerks.
FDR-style w/ a super-slim majority was probably never going to happen, but it came remarkably close. It'd be different if there were going to be another chance any time soon, but ... [doom & gloom].
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