> The notion of you as someone willing and even eager to find compromises is notable. We’re in this political moment where compromising is seen as weakness. I mean, there are two different frames for me. The more positive frame is: I’m very consistent in my progressive values, but I want to build a majoritarian coalition for these progressive values, and I want to do so with a hopeful, unifying vision and the recognition that I don’t have a monopoly on the truth. We need this temperament to make progressivism not just 20 to 30 percent of the party but a majoritarian part. The negative spin would be: This is opportunistic or not pure enough. I may end up upsetting both the progressives and the moderates, or I may succeed. That remains to be seen.
Therein lies the fatal flaw of the Democratic Party.
They simply ignore the Overton Window
because they know it is better for them to simply ignore this reality.
Democrat leaders would much rather ignore the fact
that the Republican Party is in no mood for a compromise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
My personal conspiracy theory
is that the Democrat operatives are elated to see Roe v Wade fail.
They get to play with a lot more money
so they will earn more money.
It is not in their best interest (at least in the short term) to solve any problem.
Just pretend that you are a "pragmatist" and want a compromise.
Ignore the fact that the "compromise" position keeps moving to the right and we lose everything.
