Would be helpful if people could think about this outside of R/D partisanship and consider the implications of endless gridlock for the constitutional system itself. i.e., there is a reason the executive branch and the courts keep accumulating power
https://twitter.com/databyler/status/1481329974111993857
in the absence of a congress that can fulfill its large and dynamic role in the constitutional system, power will accrue to those actors that can take up the slack. which means, on one hand, an unelected tribunal of “judges” and on the other, a large and powerful bureaucracy.
the other thing i’ll say is that an endlessly gridlocked congress changes the incentive structure for people who might be interested in elected office. out with people with policy ambition, in with people who are there mainly to preen for the cameras.
and while you can’t blame the filibuster for all of this, it certainly does not help
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