If you are wondering when the next destructive salvo against the norms in Congress will be launched, we know it will be the next time Democrats win a Senate majority, which could be as soon as next year.
Senate Democrats have spent the last several years chomping at the bit to eliminate the legislative filibuster as they complain that institutional limits won’t let them do whatever they want. This follows Senate Democrats eliminating the filibuster for judicial nominations and precedes the next likely power grab attempt of packing the Supreme Court.
Senate Democrats have had only a slim majority though, meaning they needed everyone on board in order to pursue this goal. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) were not on board, depriving them of two votes and leaving just 48 Senate Democrats ready to nuke the filibuster.
That won’t be the case the next time Democrats win a Senate majority. Manchin let President Joe Biden burn his credibility in West Virginia and decided not to run for reelection, seeing the writing on the wall for a 2024 loss. Sinema, who is being chased out of the party by Democrats, announced on Tuesday that she would also not be running for reelection. Rep. Ruben Gallego, the Democrat running to replace her and the favorite over GOP candidate Kari Lake, is already in favor of nuking the filibuster.
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Without Sinema or Manchin, there are no Democrats in the upper chamber who recognize how this could backfire. That means that, whether it happens in this election cycle or any future one, a Democratic Senate majority will nuke the legislative filibuster and subject the country to sweeping, constantly changing policies for the foreseeable future — all in pursuit of the party’s desire to force its destructive progressive policies on the country without having to compromise or negotiate.
The next time Democrats or their media allies whine about norms being risked by a possible Donald Trump reelection, it must be remembered that they do not care about norms. The simple reality is that they want to be the ones to destroy those norms, just as they did the first time they nuked the filibuster and just as they will do if voters give them control of the Senate again.