Comment by SpicyLemonZest
6 months ago
I agree with everything you're saying, but the biggest problem you point out is exactly what the democracy talk is meant to solve. The Democratic coalition includes more than a few people - not just politicians, voters too - who specifically value negotiation and compromise and mutuality over most if not all policy objectives. The only way to convince them to support a knock-down fight is to convince them that they have to fight, that we have to pause negotiation and compromise for now or risk losing it forever.
I've been trying to convince them of that for 15 years and it's only recently that the party base is tilting in the direction of possibly-maybe being more confrontational. Most Congressional democrats have yet to get the message, or mouth the rhetoric but make no effort to match it with legislative actions (even superficially futile ones).