Nancy Pelosi to all of us, "Kindly go **** yourselves while I do a huge solid for the party's corporate donors, especially in the healthcare industry, and sink Medicare for All before the primary even gets going."
This is too big of a misstep for a smooth operator like Pelosi, so she's clearly trying to blow up Medicare for All for the 2020 cycle, and I can only think of one reason she'd do it.
The reality of it is the only thing she's doing is hurting our general election chances because Dem voters WILL pick someone who supports a form of Medicare for All, and the GOP WILL run ads that say "Even leftist liberal left coast lefty Pelosi says this socialist healthcare won't work!"
But why should she give a ****? She's got the speakership locked up until she retires or dies, and those sweet sweet checks from big pharma/big healthcare/insurance aren't going anywhere as long as she keeps fighting the corporate fight.
(Cross posting in the primary thread too.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ampht...5d6_story.html