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Leros's avatar

It made sense after the insanity of Jan. 6 for Biden to try to take down the temperature. After all, part of his narrow Electoral College victory (and it was narrow-we should not fool ourselves into thinking otherwise) was reasonably thought to be due to Biden's appeal as a "normal" President. But it's clear in retrospect how wrong that view was. All it did was give MAGA time to regroup and have the rest of the non-MAGA Republican lapdogs fall in line to save themselves from being primaried out of office. Hopefully we have learned the lesson you suggest: only power politics works.

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Migs's avatar

Yep. It sucks too. Trying to do the right thing but your opponent just sees it as weakness.

The fundamental problem for dems in power politics is that because of the senate and the court they are the weaker party.

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