To All the Progressives That are Pissed at Democrats for Voting for the CR...

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9. On this particular issue

I am not alone, many Dreamer advocacy groups feel the same, they could have managed it better.

In retrospect it would have been better to accept the CR with the 6 year CHIP on Friday, avoythe shutdown and picked up the DACA fight 4 weeks later as a stand-alone issue. There will not be a second shutdown within 4 weeks.
The fear I have is that republicans will either talk a lot of talk in the Senate to only let it die in the House where there is a lot more political cover or craft a “take it or leave it” bill that has a pathway to citizenship for DACA kids but otherwise has stomach-churning provisions meant to dare the Democrats to vote against actual DACA citizenship legislation. In other words, ratfuckery. Which, FYI, is what the last CR was...

My point is that if we are going to take a stand then take a stand and sell it but don’t take a stand and 48-hrs later seemly back out of it for what, to the casual observer, appears to be the very same deal you initially said “no” too. People, especially our Democratic base, want to be a principled stand, inspired and to see backbone right now and taking a little heat from a bunch of racist and xenophobic assholes is well worth the benefit but you have to sell it and mean it.