“If you're rooting against the president, you are rooting against the nation,” the Pennsylvania Democratic senator told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
you’re supposed to be working together to run the country.
This is a dangerously naive view about politics. This philosophy of bipartisan cooperation pursuing shared goals assumed from the start that the goals are shared and that not just rooting for a president to fail but actively trying to make it happen can in many cases be doing the right thing for the country and your constituents. This isn’t just a matter of tone deaf messaging, it’s just outright wrong.
I get the idea: you’re supposed to be working together to run the country.
But read the room dude.
This is a dangerously naive view about politics. This philosophy of bipartisan cooperation pursuing shared goals assumed from the start that the goals are shared and that not just rooting for a president to fail but actively trying to make it happen can in many cases be doing the right thing for the country and your constituents. This isn’t just a matter of tone deaf messaging, it’s just outright wrong.
In hindsight bipartisanship does seem like it went “give a mouse a cookie and he’ll ask for a deteriorating pumpkin”