The voting on the border bill was a fustercluck. What was really at play was a tactical failure to anticipate Mitch McConnell would do the most cynical thing possible and the different dynamics of the two chambers. Online outrage tended to focus on McConnell, but the institutional constraints are just as important.
If nothing else, the imperative of winning back control of the Senate should be clearer than ever.
UPDATE: Martin Longman makes his usual astute point that the politics of immigration don't favor Democrats. The terms of debate should be making the process at the border more humane, instead Democrats have fallen over themselves to get as close to "open borders" as possible. That's a loser.
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