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LurkerJ said:
EpicRandy said:

Looking back I think what killed democrats' chances was Joe Manchin & Kyrsten Sinema preventing democrats from enacting popular legislation early on. Those 2 abused the fact Dems had a very narrow majority in the Senate and made the Democrats into the "do-nothings democrats" Trump was claiming earlier, both making Democrats unpopular and giving credibility back to Trump and Republicans after January 6. 

Joe Machin especially was claiming "We can't do away with filibuster because if we do then Republicans will also do it". yeah right -_- like anybody is believing Republicans will take the high road and work with a filibuster in place. They'll remove at first opportunities.

There were ways to circumvent these two and do more, I am not mentally equipped to explain this myself now as it's been long time. I will dig up the articles regarding this (or not, I will see how motivated I am later, I am just BLEH about it all now).

This is the dems need to work on, it's almost as if they're too happy to ditch progressive policies. 

Of course, there were ways, but none were without risk, especially since later on Kyrsten became independent and Manchin is one of the most right-leaning democrats, circumventing their constant opposition could have led them to vote against bills out of spite or worse change party affiliation which would have strip dems of senate control.