Perry Bacon Jr.

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Perry Bacon Jr. @perrybaconjr

It's not just that the filibuster prevents Dems from enacting many of their priorities. The 60-vote threshold pushes the party toward fiscal issues that can be done through reconciliation and away from non-fiscal issues (say abortion rights.) https://t.co/k1H4vhRVjn — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 1, 2021

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Perry Bacon Jr. @perrybaconjr

I can't pick one section to highlight from this great conversation between @farai and @trymainelee. If you care about journalism, politics and/or racial issues, you should definitely read two of the country's leading black journalists speaking so honestly. https://t.co/yFzYrKxdbP — PolitiTweet.org

The other thing @froomkin gets so right is that while political journalists have been perhaps too unwilling to writ… https://t.co/K4RR1oByEz

Posted Feb. 1, 2021

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Perry Bacon Jr. @perrybaconjr

So the Dem debate over keeping or ditching the filibuster isn't just about norms, rules and bipartisanship. The policies that Dems could enact in a world without the filibuster are probably more important to AOC than Joe Manchin. So this is an ideological/policy debate too. — PolitiTweet.org

It's not just that the filibuster prevents Dems from enacting many of their priorities. The 60-vote threshold pushe… https://t.co/TBjnGp2mVM

Posted Feb. 1, 2021