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How the filibuster dies
Lessons from Adam Jentleson’s “Kill Switch.”
I am, frankly, afraid of what’s going to happen in the 2022 midterm elections. If the GOP block the Dems from passing any legislation — even the Jan 6 Commission bill! — then it’s going to be very hard to mobilize millions of habitual non-voters to show up for the midterms.
And at least one of those bills — HR1, the “For the People Act” — has to pass soon if we’re going to head off possibly irreversible voter suppression that will require Democrats to win even-larger supermajorities to win office.
The 2020 elections — and the shambles in Arizona — highlighted just how much of US national politics is controlled by the states.
If you think that the GOP Congressional caucus is unhinged, you don’t wanna see what’s going on in the state parties:
With a razor-thin hold on the Senate, the Dems need bold action and unity to pass HR1. But establishment Dems like Manchin and Sinema act like their path to re-election requires them to sabotage the Dems on core issues like the $15 minimum wage.
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#crisis-of-legitimacy
