Spoiled Opposition
Ezra Klein makes a good point: Republicans caused the Senate Democrats to adopt the Nelson deal by filibustering the bill. And not only that, but the Republicans are now voting against the reconciliation bill that will remove the deal. How anyone can think that this is principled opposition, and not naked politics, is beyond me.
Mitch McConnell has admitted as much (h/t Yglesias). By withholding any bipartisan support for major Democratic measures, the Republicans have pursued a delegitimization strategy without any regard to the substance of the bill or to any number of concessions within it. Amazingly this has worked, and the public has been largely skeptical of reform, despite broad support among industries, even those that have opposed it in the past.
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