This is something the GOP does well that the Dems could stand to learn from. The GOP proposes bills, and conducts votes, etc, often to stake out a position and advertise their ideas, frames, etc, and reinforce how they are different from Dems and what we stand for, and what they stand for.
They've been doing this now for 30 years or so. They used to be laughed at (OK, we still laugh at them) but you know, the cumulative effect of this has been that they have won the war of memes so thoroughly that the modern Democratic party governs to the right of Nixon, and the modern GOP looks like this:
So my devil's advocate question of the day is: why don't we stake out our wish-list positions for the same reasons? How come we don't hold votes on Medicare For All, over and over and over again, regardless of whether we think it's going to pass?
If we did more of that, maybe we'd be a country governed between the far left and center left, instead of what we have now, which is between the center right and far-batshit-right.
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