Pragmatism cont.
In his column today, David Brooks discusses the Democrats commitment to political pragmatism, whereby they are ready and eager to make big compromises in order to pass big legislation. His distinguishes between legislative and policy pragmatism:
But the new approach comes with its own shortcomings. To understand them, we have to distinguish between two types of pragmatism. There is legislative pragmatism — writing bills that can pass. Then there is policy pragmatism — creating programs that work. These two pragmatisms are in tension, and in their current frame of mind, Democrats often put the former before the latter.
This mirrors the distinction between Pragmatism 1 and Pragmatism 2 that I discussed earlier.
-Jake
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