That's the word that has done us in. True leaders never compromise. If you are strong, you win. If you are weak, you lose.
We have compromised everything that America stood for away within the past thirty years. Law, order, freedom, private property rights and many, many more...with weak leaders who compromise.
Compromise: I lose a little by giving you a little and you win a little by me giving you a little. Win, win? HELL NO! It's lose, lose.
With each "deal" or "compromise" our "weak kneed" leaders made, American values and culture lost, each and every time.
The problem with that logic is that the status quo is unacceptable. If our failure to compromise at all means that no bill gets passed, that's a homerun for the liberals. They want us to refuse to compromise because it preserves a status quo that benefits them.
"True leaders never compromise" is a ridiculous mantra. Go back to 2001. Dubya wanted a $1.5T tax cut, but the Dems and RINO's didn't want anything over $1.1T. So he compromised and settled for the $1.3T. But according to you, he should have "refused to compromise", even if that meant no tax cut at all. Evidently, in your book, no tax cut is better than a $1.3T tax cut.