Even as I write this, there is consternation among many on the left that the Republicans in the Senate-joined by moderate Democrats Joe Manchina of West Virginia and Krysten Sinema of Arizona-will become significant stumbling blocks to President Joe Biden’s ambitious legislative agenda.
Though this has been the case for quite some time-ever since Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced that the goal of his caucus was to make Barack Obama a one term president-it’s become increasingly clear with each passing year and each legislative debacle. " excellent, surprising new book.It’s no secret that the United States Senate is, in a word, broken.
"Careful and thorough and exacting." -Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books."Jentleson understands the inner workings of the institution, down to the most granular details, showing precisely how arcane procedural rules can be leveraged to dramatic effect." -Jennifer Szalai, New York Times.Featuring a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration, Kill Switch will remain an essential warning about the costs of empowering this nation's right-wing minority. A revelatory history of minority rule in America as expressed through the Senate filibuster, Kill Switch shows that white conservatives have long relied on the filibuster-which is not featured in the Constitution, and which, as Jentleson demonstrates, the Framers would have opposed-to shut down attempts to create a multiracial democracy. Yet as Adam Jentleson shows, the problem not only goes back to the nineteenth century, but is less about the presidency than it is about our nation's most venerated institution: the United States Senate. Our democracy is under assault from homegrown authoritarians, with most observers blaming Donald Trump and the Republican Party that submitted to him. blistering and persuasive." -Ezra Klein, New York TimesĪn insider's account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used "the world's greatest deliberative body" to hijack our democracy. With a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration
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