Destroying the country from the center
rather than acknowledge the failure of his political strategy and the damage to his economic strategy, the president tried to put a post-partisan happy face on the whole thing. "Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands," he declared on Saturday, and "the scale and scope of this plan is right."
No, they didn't, and no, it isn't.
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The death of partisanship has been much exaggerated. Hoping to move forward together with regressives who are trying to go the opposite direction, and are tripping you, is likely doomed to a very troubled movement.