By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026This compromise-oriented meekness carried over into Biden's relationship with Democratic lawmakers who sold out the American people. 28/ 190
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026Rather than campaigning for the primary opponents of monsters like Fetterman, Sinema and Manchin, Biden worked behind the scenes to broker compromises, delivering yet another inedible pizzaburger (and acting hurt and bewildered when no one thanked him for it). 29/ 1100
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026The alternative? Constitutional hardball: pluralistic.net/2024/10/18/s... It's not clear whether Harris's abbreviated campaign could have made the public case that she would govern in a more muscular fashion as befitted the polycrisis facing the nation, but she didn't even *try*. 30/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Blue states should play “constitutional hardball” (18 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 191
