Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There was a big bout of legislative productivity in 1965-66 over the segregationists’ objections and another one in 2009-2010 when Biden was VP and the segregationists were gone, but the big theme of the Carter era was Dem infighting blocking progress despite large majorities. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 19, 2019 Hibernated

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It’s worth saying that while there really was much less polarization, it’s not particularly true that Joe Biden and various segregationists “got things done” in the 1970s. — PolitiTweet.org

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Jim Eastland, for example, was not some font of legislative productivity outside the specific realm of Civil Rights either. https://t.co/hN40QssznU https://t.co/3abT4FGlwW — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 19, 2019 Hibernated