Overly cautious, overly concessive

Whilst the RepuGNicans commandeered the far wrong, Democrats remained too far to the wrong. The current Make America Grotesque Again debacle illustrates what comes of arrogantly revering an increasingly broken system. 

2010 "It was clear from the outset that this was someone who would concede rather than confront — and that’s a shortcoming in a politician, if not in a man."
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/opinion/20judt.html .