There will always be those who shout that progressive legislation doesn't go far enough.
Folks who are one bad tweet away from insisting that incremental progress is somehow worse than no progress at all.
By setting an impossibly high bar for what constitutes "true" progressivism, the purists effectively create a circular firing squad, one in which no one can ever measure up to their exacting standards.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-perils-of-purity-politics
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