Immigration activist who protested Obama/Biden's immigration policies benefitted greatly from DACA

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18. No, in a certain corner of the left, it's a daily thing

They reserve their greatest disdain for Democratic presidents, whom they relentlessly attack for not meeting a set of ideological goal posts that are constantly adjusted to ensure that the president will be deemed a disappointment, "not progressive enough" or "just like a Republican" no matter what policy achievements are made.

Progressives prefer left-wing legislators who sit quietly between symbolic speeches, but never once pass or in any way tangibly affect a bill that actually does anything. But a legislator who fights actual battles, and causes legislation to be passed that moves the country in some tangibly leftward direction, will not be rewarded for it - they will be tarred with the difference between that legislation and a perfectly ideal conception of what it should be, as if that ideal were a real thing and the bill they passed were a movement to the right for not living up to it.

This is an illustration of the quixotic, monkish, fantasy-based solipsism in American left-wing politics.