1. I think @fordm is accurate here in saying the Biden White House is effectively giving up on the voting rights bills. It's useful to think about why & what that means going forward. 
2. The reasons for giving up are well known: filibuster, Manchin, Sinema. An unhill fight and do you want to wasted resources on a very uncertain thing when you could be focusing on walk-arounds (pushing enforcement of existing civil rights laws, donor investment in GOTV).
3. The best argument for de-priotizing voting rights is that it only matters on the margins & that a strong economy is more important in deciding elections. There's something to that but...
4. Margins matter in very close elections, as USA elections are these days. Both last 2 presidencies decided by less than 80,000 votes in 3 states. Also walk-arounds seem flimsy since courts whittling away existing voting rights laws.
5. Bottom line is that there is a disconnect between Dem rhetoric (existential threat!) and actions (de-prioritizing voting rights laws). That disconnect is likely to be demoralizing to Dem voters: jeetheer.substack.com/p/biden-turns-…
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