When conservatives shut down the government in 2013 over a foolhardy attempt to defund Obamacare, many elected Republicans who knew better went along because they were scared of angry activists.
The exact same thing just happened to Democrats, and it’s ending the same way: with the same inevitable failure and predictable backlash from their own angry activists.

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