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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
"Choose doing good things over doing nothing." Good advice to Democrats everywhere.
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- @8 Will Stancil @whstancil - 4h First, in addition to having a one-vote margin, this was not a radical left- wing legislature! There are plenty of moderate Dems here. But the moderates, unlike Dems elsewhere, still wanted to get stuff done and saw progressives as partners in making that happen. @8 Will Stancil @whstancil - 4h Rather than looking at the November numbers result and imposing some kind of self-limiting narrative about the scope of their mandate, MN Dems looked at their priorities and said “How much of the list can we get done?” Turns out the answer was “Almost everything.” @8 Will Stancil @whstancil - 4h It probably also helped that this was a younger legislature, with many first-time committee chairs and newer members who were eager to start governing after years of relative deadlock in a divided statehouse. @8 Will Stancil @whstancil - 4h But the key here is that the DFL clearly figured, no matter how small their majorities were, it was better, politically and morally, to choose doing good things over doing nothing. And it did, again and again. (remote)
