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9. Republican obstructionism as usual.

The other problem is that too many positions now require Senate confirmation. Between 1200 and 1400 require Senate approval, and it seems to take several weeks for each person to be reviewed now. That number needs to be cut in half, or even less. We could argue that Democrats were able to stop Trump from making some bad appointments, but he simply went around the Senate and out his bad appointments in acting roles.

The same logic could well apply to the filibuster, that the minority party can use it to stop bad laws. The problem is that Republicans then aren’t held accountable for the real things they wanted to do to people because Democrats saved them from their worst instincts so voters just keep supporting them. The filibuster protects Republicans a lot more than Democrats.