Biden Should Ditch Bipartisanship and Focus on Pressuring Centrists Democrats
On March 25, during the first press conference of his presidential career, Joe Biden said efforts to prevent passage of the For the People Act, a sweeping bill that would expand voting rights and implement necessary campaign finance reform, were “un-American.”
“It’s sick,” he said. “It’s sick. And so I’m convinced that we’ll be able to stop this, because it is the most pernicious thing.”
But these days, pernicious politicking is as American as it gets.
Mere hours after Biden’s press conference concluded, Georgia’s Republican governor Brian Kemp signed a 100-page bill into law that restricts voting rights across what was arguably the most consequential battleground state of the 2020 presidential election. Similar bills are quickly making their way through Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country, while the federal act that could render them all moot has only just begun its languid journey through the U.S. Senate.
And with the U.S. Senate’s current composition, we all know that success is far from guaranteed. If it feels like we just went through this cycle of disappointment, that’s because we did.
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