I think they have to figure out two or three issues on which they're willing to cooperate, infrastructures the most obvious. They don't have a plan of their own yet. They desperately need to come up with a plan of their own. But I think the wisest Democrats are saying, we've got to move beyond this question of whether we resist or we compromise.
Gergen advises Democrats to find common ground and develop their own plans for cooperation.
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