really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform
--filibuster
--electoral college
--court reform
--dc and pr statehood
--new voting rights act
--gerrymandering
Yes, but only 49/51 senators were willing to vote for reforms. Everything good you want to do is contingent on a hypothetical future senate with 50 votes for your issue.
I understand that. But it represents that there just isn’t the political will to do these things within the Democratic Party so I’m wondering why things would be any different now? This isn’t doomerism. I’m I’m legitimately asking what has changed?
The makeup of the senate will change. We don’t know exactly how, yet. But describing the positions of two out of fifty one senators as representative of an entire party is just inaccurate.
He’s already expressed support for some of the things on Dr. H-L’s list, even back in 2021. It was those two intransigent senators who blocked them. On the others, you hope he changes his position. We’re in a different position than we were in his first two years and we have the experience 1/2
Of the institutional approach failing and the courts going full mask off. Biden has shown the capacity to change his mind on things repeatedly throughout his career. And who knows, there’s not an insignificant chance that we end up with president Harris within the next four years. 2/2
