compensate for

A couple of years getting started with class-based policies can’t compensate for 40 years of the opposite.

Democrats may instead be looking for someone who simply has the Sauce—a sort of inverse Trump who can win and hold voters’ attention in a Fragmented Media Landscape™️, whose perceived authenticity and realness will more than compensate for a “polarizing” personality and past or present espousal of positions that don’t necessarily match up with those of the median voter.

The post-pandemic increase in wages in no way can compensate for the last opportunity cost of a generation of flat or real wage loss that was replaced by predatory consumer credit and student loans.

As of today, it is still possible that Harris wins this thing comfortably, that pollsters have made a handful of errant assumptions about the electorate to compensate for their perceived failings in 2016 and 2020, or even that the polls just missed systematically in Democrats’ direction for the first time since 2012.

On Wednesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves chose not to renew a £2.5bn top-up to the UK's overseas aid budget introduced by the Tories to compensate for the huge amount of foreign aid being spent housing refugees and asylum seekers in hotels.