In many contexts “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” is valid. The ACA was a shit substitute for M4A. A wholistic approach to healthcare demands that the entity paying your medical bills when your young and healthy be the same one paying when your old. Preventative med & all.
Lieberman nuking the Public Option is something that has had unfathomably negative consequences.
Similar to the capitulation we’re seeing now from nearly every law maker and 6 of the 9 justices. WTAF?!!! At least when they do it to make sure they’ll keep funding for their next campaign it makes sense. It’s wrong and fucked but logical. The prostration before Trump though… why?!?!
They've conceded that the Constitution is going to be a dead letter and MAGA is going to rule authoritarian style for the foreseeable future. Ergo they're jockeying for position in America's post-Democracy era.