Manchin's filibuster defense contradicts the Senate legacy he claims to protect

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1. I hold out a private hope that Biden/Schumer/Manchin have worked out a

strategy that saves Manchin's job but at the same time will legitimize filibuster reform. So...Manchin can be the stalwart for a few weeks, holding out hope that gop senators will someday attempt to govern instead of obstruct. His stance will attract attention, headlines...and some measure of general respect as a well-meaning senator. At some point, after giving the gop a chance, he will 'see' that the gop has no interest in bi-partisanship or solutions to problems and will relent. He will grudgingly accept some filibuster reform while pointing out what we DUrs already know but the rest of the country may not.

And the focus and headlines will turn to WHY filibuster reform is NEEDED IN THE FIRST PLACE (gop trampling norms for their own personal political gain) rather than fabricated stories about the dems grabbing power.