Legislators know exactly what they are doing. They were elected Democrats, but not progressives. They have not devolved into barely functioning coalition i of wingnuts, thankfully. They’ll keep going along to get along until a rowdier bunch is elected to replace them.

coddling "republicans"
is like giving
Gasoline
to Mol-
otov.

It is simply not true that expanding the Democratic majorities mean that people endorse their politics or their methods. The primary way of getting votes is fear-mongering about the opposing party. The system is fundamentally broken, and the people acting within it are fundamentally incapable of doing good work.