… It’s hard to act alone on major national problems with threadbare congressional majorities.
Like all presidents, Biden won his office for multiple reasons. Many of his 81 million voters surely wanted him just to replace Donald Trump’s divisiveness with calm and tame the pandemic. But many others cheered his calls to lift struggling middle-class families, respond to climate change or temper racial injustice. …
That 2% of the Democratic caucus can thwart the remaining 98% does not mean the party has split between moderate and conservative factions. It means the White House is vulnerable to the tiniest splinter. CONTINUED
John Harwood, CNN
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