05-28-2023, 08:34 PM
pdq wrote:
The whole point of Manchin is to divide Democrats, for his personal West-Virginia benefit.
He's just a guy trying to survive in a state that Trump won by 40 points. There is nothing more than that. It is a figment of people's imaginations that it is. We just don't like it. In fact, the way we Democrats collectively feel about him has been engineered for the purpose of generating enough chaos to peel off some votes so that he can be more easily replaced with a Republican.
Think about this. We're to the point, where our dissatisfaction with Manchin is so intense, it makes the direct prospect of a Republican defeating him acceptable. We mistakenly believe that he's a Republican, even though his voting record is virtually 180 degrees opposite a Republican Senator. We're literally rooting for a Republican takeover of the Senate.
In the future, we'll be angry and spitting at the Josh Hawley-esqe Senator that replaces, while forgetting that we didn't fight hard enough to stop him/her.