Mitch McConnell is up to his usual fuckery, refusing to move forward on the Senate rules for the 50+1-50 Senate. He's trying to preemptively tie Democrats hands on the filibuster. This is significant, because Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema have said that they will not get rid of the filibuster. If either one of them sticks to their position, the filibuster remains. If McConnell is worried about Joe Manchin axing the filibuster, it's because McConnell is going to abuse the filibuster process (again).
The reality is that Biden's agenda is popular. However, that's been true of the Democratic agenda this century. On the merits of policy, people prefer Democratic policies. What McConnell's only insight has been is that if nothing gets done, it usually redounds to the benefit of the GOP, who is telling people government can't do anything anyway. He's a neo-Calhoun, nullifying the very idea of government.
We are in the middle of a series of cascading crises, including not just the pandemic and the economic fallout therefrom, but also climate change, the eroding liberal order and toxic inequality. People want and need action. Hopefully Manchin and Sinema realize this, if McConnell tries to subvert the public good to his narrow political aims. Again.
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