[Hoot Gibson]

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.

Biden never had a mandate. He won a rigged election.

The latest Rasmussen poll shows that 56 percent of Americans disapprove of the job that Biden is doing and 48 percent strongly disapprove. Biden spent all of his political capital through his extreme incompetence. The only Democrat candidates who will be welcoming Biden in the next year will be those running in the deepest blue states or districts, where he cannot possibly cost them an election, which means he will be spending a lot of time in his basement in 2022.