re: #280 Belafon

Remember the ACA? Remember how doing the right thing cost Democrats the House and ultimately the Senate?

Politics isn’t like medicine or mechanics. The outcome of a series of good choices doesn’t guarantee that you will end up in the right place, or that people will even recognize that you were trying to get to the right place. You can be punished for doing the right thing. And Trump winning reelection would be far more punishment than not. And do you know how far “I was proven innocent because the Senate didn’t convict” would carry?

About as far, if not farther, than “If they had something on me, they would have impeached me!”