Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Or imagine if instead of promising to defend Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Trump had promised to slash all three programs and complained that Paul Ryan wasn't sufficiently vigorous in his desire to reduce spending on the elderly? Would he have won? Of course not. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@brianbeutler It would obviously be great if it were possible to pass a transformative policy agenda quickly and quietly with no infighting and not much media attention, but in practice to get that done you’d have to stick to a pretty modest agenda and progressives would be really mad. — PolitiTweet.org