chapotraphouse

There's no circle to square.

American liberals are incapable of going for the jugular. Biden can't do squat, and is surrounded with a party that doesn't know how to do squat. Trump and the GOP has an easier time because outside of maybe a wall, they don't have any deliverables to build; he goes in knowing his mission is to bust the place up.

Now, I can see why they've learned helplessness: there's very little on a lot of real economic or envitonmental issues they can touch that won't get capital riled against them.

But they seem to have gone the same way on the low-risk social issues too. They had 40 years to say "Roe is a compromise we've all agreed to shirk behind, maybe we should codify it to take it out of the discussion." Ditto trans rights, gay marraige, etc. These could have been safely vaulted 10 years ago, before they became the bugabears they are now.

I think they revel in the "more-civil-than-thou" righteousness of inaction. Thry didn't have to go too aggressive to protect that stuff because it would cause needless conflict. Actually closing the door to the henhouse isn't respectful to the fox.