Why do more than you need to occupy the seat that gives you the power to assign taxpayer money to people and projects you prefer?

Just being marginally better than the other scum isn't going to cut it anymore, as evidenced by all the local and state governments that are making moves regardless of what the feds are doing.

To be fair it's not like this administration has done nothing of value, but many of the processes that have begun have yet to bear fruit like the discussions around Right to Repair, unionization, and breaking up the monopolies and oligopolies. Actually follow through with some of that, get a few wins, and then you can claim to be the virtuous ones.