And Kaine very incorrectly conflates one party rule with a party winning an election and having governing majority, which is how it works everywhere else.

Staggering off-cycle overperformance by the opposition, now time to take all the enthusiasm of the base and watch it explosively drain out like it's an overstuffed tank of molasses on January 15, 1919

It is a handicap in politics to be the party that genuinely believes in governance and is broadly opposed to continued suffering of constituents, and yet there is no future for anything but degradation and misery if the Republican Party under Trump cannot be made to suffer consequences for its acts.

My deep concern about this approach is that it’s teaching the Trump administration that the path to get Democrats to cave is to inflict maximum pain.

It means if we do this again in January, he’s going to try and find new and creative ways to hurt more people faster to get Democrats to cave

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“Essays in Macroeconomics and Labor Markets” for Harvard University

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There is no world where Congress asserts its constitutional prerogatives but can't legislate on a simple majority basis.

There is no world of effective federal governance where Dems can't integrate executive action with legislative backing.