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no_hypocrisy

(46,313 posts) Sat Jan 20, 2018, 09:39 AM Jan 2018

Compromise and bipartisanship don't mean

capitulation to the majority's demands. It requires the understanding both sides won't get *everything* they want and will be somewhat unhappy with the end result.

Democrats (most of them) won't enable Republicans without getting a concession or more.

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Compromise and bipartisanship don't mean (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Jan 2018 OP

Trump is totally inept. He can't govern. C_U_L8R Jan 2018 #1

C_U_L8R

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1. Trump is totally inept. He can't govern.

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 09:43 AM

Jan 2018

I don't think we've ever seen such a fuckup in office. Any office. And, with a few exceptions, his Republican lapdogs aren't much better.

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