Thread by @originalspin

Someone Chucksplain to me why people of color busted our asses to get the Senate to 50+1, just so Dems could “share power” with a party that is a constant active threat to the Democratic Party’s nonwhite base

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1351297814953943040

People are saying “it’s fine, it’s the same as 2001” when it was 50-50 under Bush

Folks, nothing is the same as 2001. McConnell rammed thru three Supremes after blocking Garland. Before we won in GA, McConnell vowed to block Biden from even the freedom to name *his own cabinet*

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1351326343854657537

Plus the Republican Party is full of unhinged and dangerous crackpots and their ambitious enablers. Close to a dozen Senators refused to certify Biden’s fair and legal election as president! That was JUST TWO WEEKS AGO!

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1351326343854657537

If Schumer had Mitchlike ironclad control of his caucus, which he doesn’t, he could ram through an organization plan that basically shuts Republicans out of power.

Sure, it’s not nice. But civility is a luxury that only Democrats seem to indulge these days.

I do understand that it would take killing the filibuster to make changes that reshape the organizing resolution. I hope we all understand that the filibuster has to go no matter what—at least the non-talking filibuster.

The argument is that it’ll take the Republicans truly screwing things up to convince Manchin et al to vote to nuke the filibuster but if “challenging a legal election and provoking an insurrection” isn’t screwed up enough I don’t know what it’s going to take.