for your own voters. he s trying to put it in larger interprets, competitiveness terms, saying, look, for the united states to be competitive in the 21st century, we have to have things like paid family leave of the kind that is standard in western europe. we have to have the kind of high-speed trains that they have in japan, in china. we have to have the kind of broadband access you see when you go to south korea. this is about making the united states fit for competition for the decades ahead, and that s an argument that lands better with joe manchin than it does fighting with him about what his voters want and are not willing to pay for. thank you for that. kirsten, our democracy is under attack. republicans are rewriting laws all across this country based really on a lie. president biden has been clear that he thinks that the way to defend democracy is to show that government can work and do things to help people. so how important is it for democrats to come together in this mome
medicaid saying we have to push this into states that have said no to it under the affordable care act for over a decade, and he started to say, look, if we can t make this permanent, we ll take half a loaf. we ll put it in place for five years. these are the kinds of changes that begin to get something moving. but you know, don, i think the larger point here that s interesting, too, you ve begun to hear someone like joe bimancn talk to joe biden. he s not going to say to somebody, i m going to squeeze you here, you have to do something for the non-voters. he s trying to put it in larger terms, competitiveness terms. saying, look, for the united states to be competitive in 21st century, we have to have the family leave they have in europe. we have to have the kinds of broadband access you see when you go to south korea.