# Democrats and Republicans Can’t Agree on Anything. They Shouldn’t Have To.

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Ezra Klein]]
- Full Title: Democrats and Republicans Can’t Agree on Anything. They Shouldn’t Have To.
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/opinion/biden-schumer-manchin-bipartisanship.html

## Highlights
- To insist on bipartisanship as a condition of passage is to believe that it’s better for American politics to choose its solutions from the kid’s menu.
- If a party repeals a popular bill, they will pay an electoral price. If they repeal an unpopular bill, or replace it with something better, they’ll prosper. That’s the way the system should work.
- This is what Manchin gets wrong: A world of partisan governance is a world in which Republicans and Democrats both get to pass their best ideas into law, and the public judges them on the results. That is far better than we have now, where neither party can routinely pass their best ideas into law, and the public is left frustrated that so much political tumult changes so little.