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>With the one caveat that the version he campaigned on wouldn't
>have worked, because there was no individual mandate.
>
>The important point though it that it's naive to think that by
>staking a harder line before being elected, you can get a
>better compromise after being elected. There really just isn't
>such a thing as political compromise anymore.
>
>The far more likely outcome of a Democrat taking a much harder
>line, especially in the current campaign, is that they simply
>won't get elected at all. If we nominate an unelectable
>candidate, then all the decisions get made by President Trump
>and his two houses of Republican-led Congress.



^^^^^^^