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How so?

• AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  I'll try to steelman it. Legislation is all about compromise (or at least it was, back when legislators worked). There's a lot of give and take, of people modifying positions they didn't hold all that tightly in order to gain on the positions that they really care about. That means that people say one thing on day 1, say something differently on day 5, and vote still a third way on day 10. If you're going to "expose" all of that, you can make every one of them look like a hypocrite with zero principles. In many cases that may be true, but you can make it look far worse than it is. And if you do that, then nobody can work with any give and take, for fear that the press will destroy them. As I said, I think that's the steelman. That doesn't necessarily mean that I believe it...