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What’s the Point in Being Moderate?
We have nothing to gain by playing games with the Republican Party.
It’s difficult to know where to begin when discussing the Republican Party. We don’t even need to address Donald Trump when considering the lengths that the GOP will go in order to prevent Democrats from getting anything done.
Perhaps no one knows that better than Merrick Garland, who was blocked by Mitch McConnell and the Senate for a year from even getting a hearing for his Supreme Court nomination. McConnell is on the record saying one of the highlights of his career was looking Obama in the eye, and telling him he would not get that court seat. And yet there is a significant portion of Democratic politicians that seem to feel reaching across the isle, and working together is the key.
But now, with Trump in office as the ultimate culmination of years of obstruction and hatred, can we finally ask: what is the point in being moderate?
Clearly, being willing to accept defeat for the sake of looking like the adults in the situation doesn’t seem to be going well, so I have to wonder why we continue to pretend that this decades long strategy of moderation is the way to approach modern American politics. Not only do our politicians get the cold shoulder from the GOP, they get the cold shoulder from…