Looking back the progressives couldn't get Bernie elected so they ended up with a newly invented left of center in Biden who is trying to throw them some bones to keep their grumbling to a low roar. Now he'll have no choice but to move more toward center, and Manchin/Sinema don't seem like quite the outliers to the party they were a few days ago.

I'd like to see the democrats with some power step up and shut these nutjobs down, but its a game of attrition. The only hope is the nutjobs evolve into taxpaying suburbanites who have a mortgage, a college fund and a 401K to protect otherwise the nutjobs are going to out number everyone else.

have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings