the democrats are acting like they're playing games with the outparty, but this is their own party. air your incongruence openly to expose manchin as the problem, right? but who loses? the democrats do, because it is still democrat dysfunction. pushback over masks, mandates, bias, policing. these are all symptoms of this growing idea that government doesn't help. can't help. can't help but mess with people. this is the existential threat to democrats. now, perversely, and they're not in a good position, but they're not in a good position for a good reason. hear me out. perversely, one political party is about feeding fears that government cannot do anything. so it is on the democrats to show it can. that's the harder prt er part o equation. as my father used to say, any jack ass can kick down a barn. it takes a good man or woman to build one. so the eas-- here's the problemr the democrats. they're fighting the good fight. that's not me saying so. they said so. that was their pledge. and for months now, while promising that we'll show you government can work to end the chaos, they've