Let’s engage in a thought experiment.

If Harris were to have negotiated a $15 minimum wage with Republicans but to do so had to give up the EPA. Would that earn your favor?

Let us assume that giving up the EPA is too much, do you see a world where the Republicans agree to anything while getting anything you are OK with giving up?

Perhaps you and the Republicans share some common wedge issue, do you think you would get any Democratic support for a bill that makes that trade?

Minimum wage is currently a partisan issue, a party that believes it should be increased and a party who doesn’t think it should exist. Just keeping it is as is is a negotiation.

The funniest part is that privileged people get pissy about being called by their title all the time, it does sometimes materialize in jokes, but that’s still punching up.

As a fun experiment I misgender bigots until they got mad about it. It doesn’t take long.