If you have a shitpile 100 feet tall, and say "that's a lot of shit, we should remove the shit", and you remove 50 feet of the shit, and then say "well, the rest of it is Republican shit, so we're not touching that", you still removed 50% of the shit, that's a good start. Maybe there can be a based governmental minimalist on the other side who'll remove the other 50%, and then we're great, but even if not, 50% reduction in it is still better than 0% reduction.