That’s because the best strategy for partisans to wreak havoc in the other party is to pursue bipartisanship when they’re in power. For him, the lesson of the Obama stimulus wasn’t about the importance of bipartisanship. “Barack was so modest, he didn’t want to take, as he said, a ‘victory lap,’” Biden told House Democrats in early March. Worship at the altar of FDR all you like, but don’t forget FDR was a master at dividing his opposition. Such a strategy would annoy the Democratic base, but their protests would only make Bidenism more attractive to centrist Republicans.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 30, 2021 10:08 UTC