Update to Joe Manchin Is The New Poster Boy For Appeasement Of The Enemies Of Democracy (Updated). On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) wrote an op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail that he will vote against a sweeping election reform overhaul bill, putting the fate of the For The People Act in jeopardy in the 50-50 Senate. … Read more
New polls, commissioned by End Citizens United / Let America Vote Action Fund and conducted by Global Strategy Group and ALG Research released last month, show that the For the People Act (H.R. 1, S. 1)––which would protect Americans’ freedom to vote, stop billionaires from buying our elections, and put in place ironclad ethics reforms––is … Read more
Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods prominently backed Kyrsten Sinema, but he says she now needs to support getting rid of the filibuster. Huffington Post reports, Major Kyrsten Sinema Supporter Says Abolish Filibuster Or Get Out Of The Senate: Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, who prominently backed Kyrsten Sinema’s election to the Senate, is … Read more
First, a history lesson. History has made British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the poster boy for appeasement of the enemies of democracy ever since the Munich Pact in 1938. Chamberlain thought he could stop what Winston Churchill correctly saw as the coming war in Europe from Nazi Germany by appeasing Adolph Hitler. Neville Chamberlain: A … Read more
Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times writes, Sinema and Manchin’s Nihilistic Bipartisanship: We are in the eye of the storm of American democratic collapse. There is, outwardly, a feeling of calm. The Biden administration is competent and placid. The coronavirus emergency is receding nationally, if not internationally. Donald Trump, once the most powerful man … Read more