So IMHO, Democrats should have unilaterally said "We will support Kevin McCarthy for speaker in exchange for X, Y, and Z."
That would have worked in keeping McCarthy as a Speaker, but there is no way the Democrats would have gotten X/Y/Z because any Republican that would have even hinted at following through with that promise would have faced getting ousted in this year's elections by some MAGAt armed with ridiculous amounts of campaign money.
The GOP, as it is, is fundamentally untrustworthy as long as MAGA and its supporters are not just willing but routinely doing anything they can to be as destructive as possible!
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Comprise starts with compromise.
"We won't until they do" leaves everyone blocked.
So IMHO, Democrats should have unilaterally said "We will support Kevin McCarthy for speaker in exchange for X, Y, and Z."
If they had, we'd be in a better place today. For Democrats, for Republicans, and for America.
Instead, they suggested that Republicans vote for Jeffries as a speaker, and got Johnson.
Is that really better?
Realpolitik >> idealist politics
That would have worked in keeping McCarthy as a Speaker, but there is no way the Democrats would have gotten X/Y/Z because any Republican that would have even hinted at following through with that promise would have faced getting ousted in this year's elections by some MAGAt armed with ridiculous amounts of campaign money.
The GOP, as it is, is fundamentally untrustworthy as long as MAGA and its supporters are not just willing but routinely doing anything they can to be as destructive as possible!