If the Filibuster Remains, the Progressive Agenda is Doomed

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"[W]ith a conservative judiciary in place, the actions that Republicans would need 60 votes for, such as repealing the Voting Rights Act, don’t need to pass the Senate, since the Supreme Court has already eviscerated the Voting Rights Act for them."Stephen Wolf added,
Mike Konczal

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The simply asymmetry of the Senate filibuster: it takes 60 votes to build something, but only 50 to tear it down. The filibuster no longer binds the core conservative agenda in any way; it blocks and deforms everything the left needs to do. My latest:

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[marylandblue]

1. All of these articles presume we will get the Senate back in 2020

Let's get it back, then we will talk. Assuming we fail that but win the Presidency, I hope we get someone cunning enough to split the Republican coalition and get some legislation through.

[murielm99]

2. We will make some progress,

but we can't expect everything to fall into place. This will be hard, hard work. GOTV. Always.

I feel like I am still recovering from the last election, and we got quite a bit of what we needed with the blue wave.

They are thinking of ways to thwart the next wave. We can't let them.

[LakeArenal]

3. This is just some dude's speculation.

Don’t want to hear the fight is over a year and a half before the fight.