It's not often talked about, but the pluralism/ideologue split is much stronger these days than ideological splits. I like to think that that's because Obama was right and that there are many win-wins left in American politics.
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But regardless, McCain was clearly interested in the work of working through our differences. Even his final dramatic act saving Obamacare was fundamentally rooted in a desire for the Senate to be pluralistic and deliberative, and an opposition to zero-sum politics.
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His concession speech and final letter both talked, as Obama did, about the ways in which zero-sum outcomes are less inevitable than we think. Lots of people take a cynical view to that kind of politics, but it's not about compromise or the mushy middle.
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It's about sitting down with people who don't seem to share our axioms to see if we can find win-win solutions anyway. And I think that McCain shared these sentiments in a political system that increasingly seems rooted in zero-sum conflicts.
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