carry the day

Should Hamid’s righteous fury or Vahid’s rationality carry the day?

When they arrived at the Supreme Court in 2005, the arguments they advanced in the 1980s would carry the day — not because things had changed in the South, but because the arena and the players shifted from Congress and the White House into the courts.

AI stocks implies that it’s a given that they will carry the day.

“We’re holding out to make Republicans fund health care priorities they oppose” is an argument that won’t carry the day in most fora.

“There’s not a lot I can do about it. You lose something and you gain something somewhere else. You move from doing the work and having that carry the day to having your own persona confused in the performance by other people and, yeah, by maybe yourself too.”