Joe Biden told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. Joe Biden, touring Iowa, told reporters, in so many words, that his plan is to have an ineffectual, failed presidency. Or, as Biden put it more pithily, “Ending the filibuster is a very dangerous move.”
The prospective concern with Biden is not that he would somehow revive the old Dixiecrat coalition, but that he is nostalgically trapped in the bygone world of his youth, unable to grasp the tectonic changes that have reshaped American politics. Biden’s nostalgia for the villains of his political youth, and his belief that the institution can be restored to its bygone manners, is a symptom of a more profound disorder that you might call “Senatitis.
This history, to the chamber’s enthusiasts, is a happy story that justifies its workings. In reality, the success of civil-rights legislation, and the flowering of bipartisanship, was the product of a unique circumstance. The Republican Party, founded as an organ of activist central government and more egalitarian social policy, spent the 20th century moving right. The Democratic Party, once hostile of big government and protective of white supremacy, moved left.
But even senators who joined after the decline absorbed its institutional memory and sense of its better past self. “We should not be doing anything to mess with the strength of the filibuster,” New Jersey senator Cory Booker said earlier this year. “It’s one of the distinguishing factors of this body.” Even the famously irascible Bernie Sanders insisted that he was “not crazy about getting rid of the filibuster,” which he defends as a tool “to protect minority rights.
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