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by apothegm 43 days ago
Being in he majority party doesn’t mean he can force the rest of the party to line up behind him. And even if he could, in 2021-24, the Republican filibuster stonewalled absolutely anything interesting that the Democrats wanted to do anyway.
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> Being in he majority party doesn’t mean he can force the rest of the party to line up behind him

In two decades in office he never found one moment to pull a Sinema/Manchin?

> the Republican filibuster stonewalled absolutely anything interesting that the Democrats wanted to do anyway

Taxes can be passed via budget reconciliation. The simple truth is policy has never been something Sanders has politically prioritized.