Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., defended the filibuster onstage during a panel in Davos. Speaking to the world's elites, the newly independent Sinema dismissed concerns that, maybe, restoring and enhancing voting rights was more important than the mistake of history that is the Senate's de facto 60 vote threshold.
For me, only recently returned from vacation, that dozen or so words — "Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., defended the filibuster onstage during a panel in Davos" — was enough to pierce through whatever chill I had accumulated during my time off. Because it's not just that Sinema is wrong about the filibuster, which is a point that I've made many times over the last two years. It's that she is now so smugly wrong, and in a way that glosses over the biggest problems this country is facing.
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