@_dm Democrats, a party dominated by people who style themselves expert, good-government professionals, are particular bad at (2). if “the right thing” would be a Gantt Chart stretching forward several years, of course we’re not going to just hand out quick goodies, in addition or instead. that would be, like, corrupt machine politics! So they feel virtuous and blame the public and lose.

We really need electoral reform to resuscitate (1). /fin