For Democrats, the main issue in the shutdown wasn’t electoral backlash — it was the filibuster. Leadership feared its removal, viewing it as a safeguard to keep the party’s rising left wing in check.
It implies that the progressive wing needs to be in lockstep with the rest of the party to ever do something, as they can be threatened with a filibuster from “the other team” to play nice, as it were.
That would imply the progressive wing is in the majority. That seems a bit at odds with reality.
It implies that the progressive wing needs to be in lockstep with the rest of the party to ever do something, as they can be threatened with a filibuster from “the other team” to play nice, as it were.