[The Outsider]

https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/...59631.html

But progressives don’t have a mandate from voters, and they can’t make anything happen on their own. The 2020 presidential election settled this, when the unexciting centrist Joe Biden squashed firebrand progressives Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primaries. In the general election, moderates and independents were key swing voters helping Biden oust incumbent Republican Donald Trump.

Democrats need to come to this realization before the infrastructure bill, which is  greatly needed, dies.  Manchin is not going to give in, and probably shouldn't.