The debt ceiling deal is not an example of good governance and honorable compromise. It sells out the American people and the planet on which we live, protecting the powerful and inflicting harm on the weak and powerless. The Democratic Party should not be a party of spineless compromise with the powers of oligarchy, whether those powers of what FDR called “economic royalism” are Big Oil, Defense contractors, or billionaire donors. Democrats will win in 2024 by rejecting - not supporting - the path of constant acquiescence to the corporate tyrants in our midst.