To sell this budget bill to the American people, Democrats need to stop playing the right's game | Jan-Werner Müller

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Plenty of empirical comparisons with Europe are cherry-picked and ignore the fact that so many Americans lead more stressful and significantly shorter lives in a society that has for decades failed to invest not just in roads and bridges, but also in a civic infrastructure of shared goods such as affordable care for dependants.
49% : The fact that the bill is so large and combines what is now commonly described as strengthening the social safety net and tackling the climate emergency is not just due to Democrat's strategic failures: it is partly dictated by the constraints of the reconciliation process.
41% : We do not put figures to the horrendously large defense bills (and we'd probably be shocked if we did); we also stopped long ago debating the Affordable Care Act in terms of costs.

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