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Harry Reid Has a Fever and the Only Cure is Eliminating Checks and Balances

Harry Reid pushing the ‘nuclear button’ was one of the fractures that broke our political system. And Reid suddenly came back from retirement to campaign for the end of the filibuster.


It’s an odd time for this particular fantasy with Republicans holding the Senate. But why stand between a crazy leftist and his dream?

Reid’s argument is that Democrats won’t be able to implement their agenda, in a hypothetical scenario in which they take the White House and the Senate until the filibuster (and all checks and balances are eliminated). But, in the real world, Trump is in the White House and Mitch McConnell is setting the Senate agenda. Reid is preemptively proposing that the Democrats implement one-party rule at a time when it would favor the GOP.

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