People keep telling me "elections have consequences" but they never apply this pithy observation to the discourse that occurs during elections - i.e. when Democrats abandon all sense of responsibility and chase Republican voters down 4chan rabbit holes into the dregs of protofascist presumptuousness. This reckless political maneuvering establishes the very parameters for future policy debates and makes it much harder to break free from these self-imposed restrictions.
And here we are.