That’s his strength. The difference is, these days leadership is in on the play.
Really? Seems most of the party is on the progressive train but for 1.5 senators and a couple reps. Seems they’ve done some work to remind the party of its new deal roots.
That’s what they are doing, but showing that to compromise doesn’t mean caving.
Have you gamed out these scenarios beyond the initial declarative phase? Do you realize that:
1- the population of said state will raise a fuss,
2- judges in said state, hoping to restore normalcy will invalidate said efforts,
3- the national backlash would be immense
4- the FBI and DOJ will come down upon the usurpers like an anvil dropped on Wile E. Coyote
They have zero chance to pull this off under a Dem administration. And three years is long enough for more of their supporters to die-off. The end game was Biden’s win. Each year mints 7 dem voters to 3 rep. And each year will kill 6 rep voters to 4 Dems.
Get a fucking hold of yourself.
1 - that just gives the fascists their excuse for a crackdown
2 - absolutely no reason to believe that once the lines are crossed amd the plan is in full swing, gqp federalist society judges won’t start ruling precisely as needed…they’ve already started with the 5rh circuit and even scotus abuse of the shadow docket…and wait till u see what they rule on gerrymandering and affirmative action and the religious freedom get out of obeying the law card
3 - the national backlash is inevitable regardless who is winning…they’re either going violent if their shenanigans are thwarted or we will be forced to if they succeed
4 - yeah…right…Garland the nutless wonder federalist society member and the 50 or so percent or more of the law enforcement community who are authoritarian conservative trump kkkultists? Sure…they’ll swoop in to save us…uh huh…
You are so bent on the destructive instinct of both man and institutions leaving you blind to the underlying, primary instinct of self-preservation.
Don’t argue self-preservation at me in the middle of a global pandemic this country failed to handle worse than some third-world nations while we watch tens of thousands of fuckwads die for refusing to take a readily available vaccine out of political tribal spite in hopes that it literally fucks up our economy so they can blame Biden for both COVID and a recession/inflation/supply line failures. Self-preservation. Ha. Absurd.
If the Democrats ever succeed in getting a significant majority in the Senate (e.g. 6+ seats), Sinema and Manchin will get their due - and of course they would probably join the Republican Party at that point.
Manchin is likely done in 2024. Possibly making way for his daughter, who will lose the seat. Senema is toast. She so burned the crew that brung her that there is no hope she could survive a primary in 2024. If she bolts to the Republicans, she is even less electable.
For whatever reason, in a state where Democrats are ascendant, she sees being all independent-like works for her. She is no John McCain. And John McCain wouldn’t win Arizona in three years.
Sure, she could run as an indie and help to elect a Republican who would otherwise lose (see Perot, Ross). But she’s done.
Stupid is as stupid does. It will take a remarkable “come to Jesus episode” to spare her a ignominious return to AZ as a failed senator.
I expect the Sinema Show will debut on OAN in December 2024, just in time for the War on Xmas.
Yeah, and you don’t want to cross them…
aka The Quebec Maple Syrup Mafia - “Tonight, you sleep with les poissons…”
Really? These people are firmly established as a shrinking minority, and you’d give up your country to them? And you really think you’d be better off if End Times Evangelicals get half the nukes (you can’t really believe they’d give them back, do you??)
Seriously, put the bottle away and sleep it off. Tomorrow you’ll still be a member of the majority, and you’ll have a headache, but that will pass in a day or so.
Yeesh… 
It CANNOT be said too often
The Party is on the Progressive Train if the Party wants to be a representational minority party of Purity Ponies representing Coastal Urban and Sub-Urban areas run by activists patting themselves on the back for dominating the fringes while the Republicans contr
The House lost seats, the Senate is by the absolute Skin of the Teeth with a tie breaker, and with next political round very likely to lose a seat or two if not worse if the vulnerable swing districts can’t be defended on their own terms, not on what plays in hard-core Dem activist districts.
Democrats running as if Lefty Left wins in the Bronx and Detroit and other hard-Dem districts are some kidn of Big Deal is the path to minority party and confirming marginalisation.
Too many movies (watched by people both the Left and the Right)…
The Left assumes homogeneity on the Democratic side
The Right is stuck on “Pioneers-don’t-back-down” on the Republican side
There are inspirational films for each one, and they usually last two or three hours.
We had better learn coalitional politics before it’s too late
I agree that R&D funding makes sense, and it won’t hurt to invest more in fusion, but that Times article didn’t convince me that we’re within a couple of decades of success with fusion. Before funding that, I’d put money into modular and safer fission reactors. It should be possible to engineer a reactor that shuts down instead of melting down upon a loss of power.
WRT fusion, remember that when someone quotes power output, like the 100MW that the Times article quoted, that the power generation may have only lasted a microsecond or two. In that case, it probably would light up a bulb for about a second.
Don’t disagree, modular standardized fission has great promise.