If I were a betting man I would bet that Democrats nuke yet another small part of the filibuster, saying you can't filibuster the organizing rules, then move forward.
McConnell will cynically claim that this shows Democrats aren't interested in unity and bipartisanship, and then we can all move on.
Anyone looking for logic in what exactly conservatives want in terms of “unifying” right now, you won’t find it, because that’s not the point. The point is that: Democrats spent 4 years decrying Trump's bullshit and divisiveness - and then - 4 years later Biden's inauguration speech talked about "unifying" the country. Soooo, therefore ANYTHING Democrats do that Republicans don’t like is some kind of bullshit "liberal hypocrisy".
That’s it. It’s people yelling at clouds, trying to score political points. Biden cancels the Keystone XL which Republicans don’t like, it’s - “Well look at Mr. Unity now!”. Congress impeaches obviously impeachable acts its - “TDS! ...Looks like Trump is living rent-free in Democrat’s heads.”
It’s all nonsense that NOBODY should take seriously.
The only possible way I can see any kind of "unity" to possibly sprout and grow would be a “truth and reconciliation” commission, where those who have committed sedition and other crimes and injustices be thoroughly questioned, with the understanding that the President will pardon those who answer TRUTHFULLY and COMPLETELY. Trump and his cultist handlers and followers will never tell the truth. So I don’t expect that to happen.
I STILL hear all this bullshit that if you address people’s needs - Mostly "peoples monetary needs" - most of the unrest - and populist extremism on the right - will disappear.
I would love to believe this is true, but the movement that made Trump possible arose during an eight-year economic expansion under Obama, and many of the Capitol rioters are reported to have been successful professionals. Their beliefs and actions aren’t being driven by economic deprivation. Yes, there are glaring failures in (and genuine grievances with) our society, but there always have been, and until the last few years they didn’t trigger millions of Americans into believing alternate realities and fascist fantasies. You can’t punish or reach all these people that are living in an apeshit paranoid alternate reality. But you can punish the people pushing that agenda.
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