A Slow (Non-Majoritarian) Parade
Of course most people only care about the policy and not the sausage factory floor, but it sure seems like we’ve recently watched a long parade of pundits decry the filibuster and opine that the US Senate is broken.
Maybe it’s obvious, but if you can’t handle Wisconsin, you surely can’t handle a 51-vote Senate. Seth Masket sums it up: “What happened in WI wasn’t a coup. It was unified government.”
