And realise it's not good for me to be this invested in your dumb affairs. Yet here we are.
The "he's embarrassing us in front of the cool kids" contingent: https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1344652899771707393?s=19
https://twitter.com/onesarahjones/status/1344702225675857922?s=19
https://twitter.com/Dan_Arrows/status/1344684216446054403?s=19
The "this isn't how you do politics" division https://twitter.com/nataliesurely/status/1344658566477709313?s=19
The "People should never be yelled at or be angry, especially if it's a white man doing it" battalion https://twitter.com/Vanessa_ABee/status/1344670081436033026?s=19
https://twitter.com/katewillett/status/1344741111563243520?s=19
The "he has an expensive house" partisans https://twitter.com/JaneOst_/status/1344699611689185280?s=19
The Means_TV crew making a prescedant https://twitter.com/ChiJohnnyCash/status/1344663683327283200?s=19
You can probably find more. The question you should ask yourself why is there a vacuum in the conversation for Jimmy to fill in the first place? Why aren't your "progressives" the ones leading?
The only good thing in the quoted thread is this:
https://twitter.com/asankawlk/status/1344644783801655298?s=19
And Dore is right when he says you should treat your politicians like civil servants. They are not you friends.
I absolutely do see the politics of voting for M4A in a pandemic, which I addressed in the section you quoted. It gives plenty of cover for anti-M4A Democrats to pretend they support it.
If you forced the vote right now, how do you prevent the following scenario from happening: Many Democrats who actually oppose M4A vote for it to prove their leftist bona fides and ward off primary challenges. The vote still fails, but now incumbent Democrats can pretend they supported it when the left tries to primary them.
Except as soon as they get primaried they will still default to attacking it.