Ominous new details about Trump's coup attempt require Democrats to act
In case you need more evidence of how much damage keeping the filibuster might end up doing, add this to the list: It could make a future stolen presidential election more likely.
This is thrust upon us by new revelations about the extent of Donald Trumps efforts to overturn his 2020 loss and by an important new paper by a leading legal scholar warning of future election subversion. Both should prompt new urgency among Democrats.
The revelations come from the new book Peril, by The Posts Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. The headline: Two GOP senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah took Trumps lies about election fraud seriously enough to devote real resources to vetting them.
But for our purposes, the more important revelation involves how those lies were supposed to interlock with the broader scheme cooked up by Trump and his co-conspirators.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/20/graham-lee-stolen-election-filibuster/
temporary311
(955 posts)How about the original detail of the attempted coup? Kind of think that detail should've been enough. If nearly being violently murdered while democracy was ended didn't prompt action, I'm not sure anything will.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,477 posts)that the filibuster will be retained until it no longer serves the GOP's purpose, whereupon it will promptly be discarded. I was optimistic a few months ago, but have lost all hope we will prevail against Manchin and Sinema.