Having President Biden declare gun violence the problem and propose a gun control solution that will die in the Senate like everything else may rally the progressive base, but it will demoralize that base, too, when it fails. The base, demoralized by that defeat, then saw Republicans take over the infrastructure plan and, in so doing, gut its Green New Deal framework, which deemed that anything and everything could be infrastructure. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema, two Democrats, refused to kill the filibuster, saving other Democrats from a vote they did not want. 1 was not supposed to get passed into law, but they made its passage a hill to die on. The Democrats’ hardcore base of Twitterati forgot or never knew that H.R. White Democrats in Washington and progressive enclaves do not. They support needing a photo ID to vote, but the Democrats insisted that hurts Black people even though Black people support the use of photo ID. News anchors roared that the GOP couldn’t even debate saving democracy or protecting the right to vote. The progressive base fully believes the GOP is dismantling democracy. Now, the same forces seem intent on dismantling the Biden Administration.įirst, the Twitter activists of the Left bought into the For the People Act rhetoric. But Democrats are increasingly held hostage by the wing of the party that believes Twitter is real life. 1, the For the People Act, was a messaging piece of legislation that was never meant to be passed.

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