They know and they don't care. They didn't think they would get *this* far, so they're going to just keep going, like drunk gamblers, addicts, all of them.
They know exactly what they're doing:
1. Keep donors satisfied by passing nothing significant
2. Lose next midterms and general
3. Blame the losses on progressives
4. Use pragmatism as an excuse to elect more centrists
5. Brag about regaining "control" of government
6. Repeat
Marianne, you have to accept with us that they don't care about winning. Not as a group.
We have to mobilize the leftists within he party to form a new Left caucus and define themselves VERY CLEARLY and vote as a block.