What would be the reasonable thing for the democrats to do right now? They weren’t allowed to see the tax bill. That’s what happens when something has the 51 republicans and it can’t be filibustered in the current environment.
Further, the republicans haven’t even brought a bill forward to be filibustered likely because they don’t have the votes in their own party.
I’m fairly centrist for this site but the republicans controlling every part of the government as well as already using their reconciliation power and blaming the democrats is so shockingly perverse in its cinycism. That’s before you even take into account the duplicity on DACA that has broad bipartisan support up to a meeting with the president last week.
Neither morally or strategically should the democrats budge on this.
And of all issues DACA? It's important to some people, but as a national topic it's pretty minor.
> What would be the reasonable thing for the democrats to do right now?
Realize they are weak and accept it. Then take the offer they were given and do the best they can. But don't hurt unrelated people in the US to try to increase their own strength.
That's a pretty selfish thing to do after all.
Then it actually passed and the media (yup, that same media) put out some calculators. I played with those, and realized I was seriously mislead.
Wait another month, when people will get higher paychecks, and see if it's still unpopular.
I really wish the media would stop telling me how to think. Just tell me what happened. Leave out the reactions, and quotes from "other people" telling me what I should think about a topic.
Best I can do right now is read opposing media outlets and contrast them, but it's hard to do.
