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> This particular administration only has a guaranteed relevance of about 7 months.

That is a deeply cynical view on the nature of politics.

> So, why bring it now?

Why help anyone else if you can't score political points off the back of it? Possibly because it's the right thing to do and ideologically motivated people actually do successfully exist in government.



> That is a deeply cynical view on the nature of politics.

How? If the bid for re-election is lost, they leave office Jan 20th. That's not cynical. That's being able to read a calendar.

If you think a new administration, specifically the one that would be coming in, will not immediately reverse a lot of things, then you just have not been paying attention.


Then they just handed them that victory without extracting any sort of price.

The incoming challenger is riding on a "populist" base. These polices are legitimate "populist" policies. The strategy here is obvious.




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