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Affordability or Accountability? Dear God, Democrats. Do Both—and More

The intra-Democratic debate that I despise above all others is the one that holds that Democrats must either do X or Y, but cannot possibly do both X and Y. It has made me insane for years. The people who lead these simple-minded arguments are alleged to be antagonists, because some of them support the Democrats doing X and others Y; but in fact, they are partners, symbiotic co-conspirators in a debate on which hours of time and millions of dollars are wasted and that repeatedly keeps the party…

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