More a bulldozer than a chess game. The fighting is just what they naturally do. Still, so far you are right. Driving Dems to give in has worked before, why not do it again and again and...
Debt: The Bad, the Weak and the Ugly "Sept 30th is funding deadline. Otherwise America goes into default." [...] "But these are only guesses. And remember, the Biden administration’s political judgment on the debt limit has been disastrously wrong every step of the way. Officials reportedly thought that by rejecting any workarounds, they would get centrists and business groups to intervene and force Republicans to raise the ceiling. It didn’t happen. They ignored warnings that insisting that there were no options would just embolden G.O.P. extremists .. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/opinion/biden-debt-ceiling-republicans.html; it did." https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172825717
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”