He just wants to pass historic legislation. He’s not waging politicial war for the weak, and he has no enemies (accept his base). And he doesn’t care about that base, or how he’s perceived by it, or others.  He doesn’t care what he has to do for/give to the Republicans to get the historic legislation passed. And he doesn’t care if the legislation he gets passed is considered “progressive” by progressives. And our reward, sadly, will be a second term of thinking like this. I doubt the history he will/is making will be as important as the retrenchment of those on the opposite aisle. Because unlike President Obama, the Republicans understand that they are in an ideological war for the soul of (their) America. And “winning” to them means sticking to their idea(l)s until the wind bends their way.