'Kevin McCarthy is drowning' Steve Schmidt

[TygrBright]

34. Stevie dear, your GOP underwear is showing.

Democrats actually want to GOVERN. In the sense of "take legislative actions that will improve the status of the broadest numbers of American people."

That sometimes means compromising. Even making deals with devils. And yes, sometimes they can be mistakes.

But Democrats, aspiring by and large to be GROWN UPS, are not fixated on schadenfreude-generation as a tool for proving our superiority, maintaining control, etc.

Which isn't to say we don't revel in it on occasion, yep.

And hopefully we DO avoid the worst kinds of collaboration with evil in the name of compromise.

You may in fact be correct that "helping Kevvie fail" is a great strategy to assure the desired outcome in 2024. But I'm not so sure of that. I think there are still plenty of people who can see the contrast between "Democrats will try to minimize damage to the people they represent EVEN IF it denies them a chance to demonstrate how horrible/incompetent/etc. Republicans are" and "Democrats can play tit for tat, too, maybe even better than the GOP and they'll put rubbing everyone's nose in the pain of GOP incompetence even before sparing their constituents pain."

helpfully,
Bright