Thread by @JewhadiTM

The only ‘undemocratic’ thing about Manchin killing BBB is the Squad’s crying

nypost.com/2021/12/20/the…

the Senate operates exactly as the Framers intended, deep-freezing legislation that lacks a sustained popular mandate.

As Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers: “The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single & numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden & violent passions, & to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate & pernicious resolutions.”

In this instance, the violent passions of a crying Squad who are acting as if Manchin alone is killing its agenda. In reality, he’s joined by 50 GOP senators, for a majority in opposition. (And other Senate Democrats are sympathetic — but reluctant to risk the hard left’s ire.)

To the Squad, as AOC puts it, “democracy is on the line.” Meaning it’s not democracy if the group does’t get its way, actual majorities be damned.