(Stefani Reynolds | The New York Times) Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) addresses a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing in Washington on Thursday, May 13, 2021. "Biden and his party have ended up conducting the same kind of negotiations as in this hypothetical, except that instead of negotiating with Republicans, they're mostly just negotiating with Joe Manchin," writes The New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat.
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