Pepsi's pretty much right. Biden needs to mercilessly execute on his entire vision as quickly as possible with a def ear to republicans.
The idea of moderating is nice, but there are a couple of mitigating factors.
The republican base actually prefers democratic policies when polled on specific policy details, they just are too engrained in their identity biases to even listen to what politicians on both sides are actually saying.
And the republicans have completely weaponized the idea of cooperation and compromise, because they don't believe in governance. If you are comfortable with ripping apart everything that makes a modern nation function because you don't believe in government, then you can't be treated as a good faith actor in policy making.
If Biden wants to push democratic reform, expanding the senate, voting rights, census modernization.... he should do it.
If Biden wants to borrow to create good jobs, he should just do it.
If he wants to address for profit health care
If he wants to do something about guns
If he wants to unpack the McConnell courts.
I don't think there is a reason for him to bat an eye at a word the republicans say, because they don't believe in serving the people.
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