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relatedly, a thing that i was profoundly wrong about was the degree to which i thought americans would recognize that disempowering mitch mcconnell was the only way chance we had at avoiding a very long and very dark winter. https://twitter.com/golikehellmachi/status/1327324501059661825
instead of trying to avoid it, we've embraced it.
it's not like anyone seriously pretends that the deficit is their big concern at this point. most americans, even republicans, were happy with the cash and would be happier with more. but ~70M americans decided that it wasn't more valuable to them than owning the libs.
i don't buy the idea that voters just didn't know that this was what they were voting for or were unaware that these were the choices. maybe a few were clueless, but we can't keep pretending that tens of millions of people are children who can't understand consequences.
