If you want to deepen democracy, you have to get rid of the filibuster.
Ezra Klein: “If you want to deepen democracy, you have to get rid of the filibuster.”
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Klein emphasizes the need to eliminate the filibuster to enhance democracy.
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I really wish Senator Schumer, Majority Leader Schumer, all the success in the world with this. But I really, really wish Senators Manchin and Sinema would do their duty, and make the senate functional, again.
If Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are even going to block the resolution to put the Senate together this year, then, of course, they would support the budget -- I’m sorry, the nuclear option in order to get rid of the filibuster even…
You’re seeing Joe Biden and the Democrats try and pass bills, to expand and deepen democracy in this country.
If you want to know who ultimately killed the filibuster, it is 100 percent Mitch McConnell because he disabused every single Democrat of the belief that you can pass anything with 60.