Thread by @Pinboard

I find these highly public attacks from within the party inexplicable. Manchin is someone who pretty capably represents the interests of an extremely conservative state, and I can think of 50 senators who it makes sense to attack before you start eating your own like this.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1472929793389727745

Democrats who do well in Trump districts are the only hope the party has for winning in rural America, and we need more of them, because rural America is the only path to a Senate majority. So maybe tone down the civil war and fight the pandemic or something.

It's not Manchin's fault that Sara Gideon got fewer votes than Trump in a blue state that Biden carried, or that the DSCC chose to run a complete nonentity in Iowa. Stacy Abrams saved the Democrats' hide, and the response has been to attack people who actually know how to win.

Matt Stoller has an interesting thread on a Democratic legislative strategy that might have been better than cutting off the child tax credit for Christmas and publicly sulking over not getting SALT cap repeal for the richest families in Westchester County

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1472936368061956109

If you never heard of Manchin before last year, but he's your greatest political villain today, maybe consider that you're being played by people who don't want to accept responsibility for a failure to lead

Reading between the lines, a lot of the media strategy from the White House this week appears to be Biden petulant over some violation of a Senate gentleman's agreement. But they make the Presidential pillow extra absorbent for a reason. Cry into it at night and act like an adult

This is exactly right. It's not Elizabethan drama, just legislate.

https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1472814280642863107