Cognitive dissonance, Ed? You assign no agency to the Democratic Party. The move rightward in Clinton's "3rd Way?" Obama's CitiBank approved cabinet? Those were choices that didn't have to be made. Dems had supermajorities.

As for today, they put some decent things in the COVID relief like the child tax credit. I fully understand their role as running interference for progress, but they want to stay in power and have the ability to pass some basics.