Bingo !!!!!
Give that man a big cigar & two Kewpie dolls!
If you don’t win all you get to do is go home and bask in the warm glow of “your principles”!
If you win you get to actually implement “your principles” maybe not all at once, maybe incrementally but at least you are at the table participating in the conversation and influencing the policy toward “your principles”.
So you have to win! Why is this so hard to comprehend!
I forgot add the Left understand this most profoundly!