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I do think it's interesting that progressives are the only reason Build Back Better has anything remotely good in it, but the general political consensus is that it's progressives that tried to ruin the bill, and they're somehow the reason the party is collapsing electorally
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Like, people will think climate spending and child care are things the moderates won from progressives, and not things progressives won from Sinema/Manchin/Biden. This party and the media so obviously use the left to a point, and then villainize the people who got them there
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Before the protests last year voter turnout for Democrats was in trouble, because Republicans were eager to vote in person and Democrats weren't. The protests drove people to vote Trump out of office, yet anyone who said "defund the police" last year is a villain now