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What's wild is that Joe Biden, the guy who has run for president every cycle since we've been alive and has been on the moderate side of the party that whole time, has arguably done the most of anyone since at least LBJ to bring in the ideologues along with the opportunists/centrists. I don't know if it was Biden himself or his advisors but at some point they realized that they can't just reflexively shit on the left/progressives if they want to govern well. It wasn't the AOCs and Elizabeth Warrens blocking big legislation in Congress. It was the aforementioned Sinema and Joe Manchins. The leftist ideologues have been able to work within the system to help get good policy done.

That's to say that I hope the left takes notice and doesn't just assume nothing can be done. Instead of getting disillusioned with all the opportunists (We need to talk about all of the ladder climbers on the campaign/consultant/policy staff side of things. Holy shit, John. It's wild out there.) we need to take a page out of the tea party's playbook and organize within the Democratic party. Because otherwise the opportunists will continue to exert more power.

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