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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, September 17, 2021

Yeah, It Didn't Work

 As I said yesterday, there really isn't anything Biden can do to move Manchin off his position. He might move Manchin a little bit, but Manchin (and Sinema) can't move too far, because they've staked out high profile positions.

As Josh Marshall points out, this was almost always going to be the result, and framing it otherwise, was folly and really, really bad politics.

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