Okay, so Josh Hawley raised his fist at Jan 6 insurrectionists and is an all around POS. Him and Amy Klobuchar co-sponsor a bill on limiting AI. That's bad?
I don't have the history in front of me, but I would venture to say that nominating cabinet members outside your party probably wasn't all that uncommon until fairly recently. Maybe not cabinet with actual decision making authority for someone as insane as Bolton but I think someone who is smart but vehemently disagrees with you is someone worth listening to. Personally having someone like Adam Kinzinger as a Secretary of Defence or something I don't think is out of line in the current environment.
The point is you HAVE to work with the other side, or nothing will ever move. Especially when it's so polarized where everything is basically 50/50 with stupid tie breakers and filibusters and stuff. How do you ever expect to get to bills being passed with actual full majorities without engaging the whole spectrum of people?
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