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Seeing the Dems have no leverage... all I could imagine that might stop McConnell was to make a bigger threat... that once the Dems again controlled the Senate, they'd try to rewrite the rules to weight each senate vote by half a Senator's state population. Since Dems now represent about 33 million more Americans than does the GOP... this would insure nothing passed the Senate without at least the approval of Senators who represented the majority of the US population. Let's remember that Clarence Thomas was also approved in this fashion. He then went on to be a key vote in Bush v Gore
I realize some here did not like my idea, though it was really meant to serve two purposes... to threaten but also to open up a debate about the antidemocratic nature of state suffrage... something that permeates our federal system... as we saw with the EC overturning the popular vote last election. Some here value conformity to an antidemocratic system... even when there is a tyranny of the minority... more than the moral legitimacy of government itself.
I am not so burdened.
So what other ideas are out there that can stop the gutter fighters in the GOP?