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With ideal conditions and in supreme form, Root’s massive appetite for runs would only have been appeased by a huge score.

The journalist Yair Rosenberg, for example, noted on social media, “Biden did exactly this, it did not work. Harris was there and saw it happen. As the saying goes, she didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. … In general, if you want to influence a politician, you have to bargain and give them a little space, not just make constant demands, or they will determine that you can’t be appeased and aren’t worth it.”

“They look weak, they look mostly like they are appeasing hostile outsiders who have no intention of being appeased,” Timothy Burke, a professor of history at Swarthmore College, has written.

Just banning rainbow flags from flying at embassies appeased enough of the GOP members who were trying to avoid a government shutdown … you know, those patriots who just needed to be sure they were doing some damage to human rights while keeping the federal government open.

You'd think that would have appeased the Freedom caucus but let that be a lesson to Johnson: It is simply not possible.