I hear you. I feel the anger and the frustration too. It feels like acquiescing. We want to fight every battle so much that we see a battle in places where there is none, where instead we have to be pragmatic.

It was still a self-inflicted wound for him to reverse his vote late. It made it FEEL like they were acquiescing.

Fwiw I’m with you on this.

A great write up on the situation: https://open.substack.com/pub/joshbarro/p/it-is-not-chuck-schumers-job-to-satisfy?r=2ws72