It's one thing to rightfully bash the 8 who caved. It's a whole other thing to wrongfully blame the entire Democratic

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16. Big Money

There are enough democrats in the pocket of big money that they ensure nothing radical gets accomplished. In the past 30 years, the few times democrats had the trifecta, it was always by a slim margin and we had to work with the Manchins/Sinemas of the party.

The things Biden got accomplished were nothing short of a miracle but they could have been so so much more.

Even ACA in the Obama years was a long slog of compromise with a couple turncoats. Remember Joe Lieberman?

We also ran strong potential leaders out of the party, a la Franken and Howard Dean. Once again I suspect on the orders of big money.