the celebration may have stopped the
democrats in washington
but there's still that warm glow of
victory
the democratic party went into this
election more united than they've been
for a very long time
but they didn't come out that way the
battle they were united on was
beating donald trump now that one is won
other battles have begun the
expectations
were set so high that anything below
that blue tidal wave
was going to cause some frustration
there's no doubt about that and that's
what you saw
on the caucus column over the weekend
torn apart in 2022. the call involving
much of the congressional democratic
party was explosive
and widely leaked
abigail spanberger is a centrist
democrat she only just held on to her
district in virginia
blaming the left of the party for
scaring her
not ever use voters word socialist or
socialism
ever again because while people think it
doesn't matter
it does matter and we lost good members
because of that
ellen patera her husband rob and mother
rebecca are centrist democrats they
voted for joe biden
because they want to moderate i'm hoping
biden
is at the center that's what i'm
counting on
i want to be able to sit down with my
republican friends and my democratic
friends and have a conversation and i
feel like we've lost that in the last
four years and i hope that
biden's able to bring our whole country
back into conversation with each other
you've got to compromise you know you
can't always
get your way the democrats are going to
have some good ideas the republicans are
going to have some good ideas
but what's really important is that
they can agree on what needs to get done
and then compromise
and figure out you know the best way to
do that
joe biden sold himself to his party as a
dealmaker someone
who in his long career has got on with
everyone
this could be important since it's
likely the republicans led by mitch
mcconnell
will still control the senate joe biden
will be pushing for whatever he can get
done
within the context of the congress he
will be dealing with
uh if progressives don't understand you
we didn't win the senate back yet right
now we still might
but if we don't david you can't ram
through a bunch of stuff when they're
in the majority it's a it's that's the
reality
of a democracy that's the reality of
getting things done in washington dc
but many progressives who march this
summer shy away from the horse trading
of the past
they believe joe biden can pursue a
radical agenda if he's prepared to take
his case to the people
they want him for example to appoint
people like bernie sanders and elizabeth
warren to his cabinet
even if the republicans refuse to
confirm their appointments
zach xle helped run bernie sanders 2016
presidential campaign if he spells out
what his vision is i and and and
and explains why he needs people like
elizabeth warren and bernie sanders
i think those people will get confirmed
and
and if and he shouldn't just give up if
the republicans say
no what he should do is he should start
going around the country
and campaigning like crazy whether he
does it from his you know from the
basement of the white house on zoom
uh or uh whether he you know whether he
actually goes around and starts doing
rallies again
he he needs to fight for it
the coalition that joe biden and his
party put together
at this election was impressively broad
it included rural voters like ellen
patera and her family
as well as those in the cities keeping
them all corralled together and
happy once the governing starts well
that's going to take some wrangling