Consider this a plea for a return to nontribalist reasonableness and decency.

News item: Ultraliberal Democrats say they won’t vote for federal “infrastructure” legislation because it doesn’t do enough. News item from four years ago: Ultraconservative Republicans kill efforts to repeal Obamacare, a long-stated goal of theirs, because they didn’t get everything they wanted in the relevant bill in the early stages of a lengthy legislative process.