With Friends Like These
It wasn’t long ago that people were insisting the Georgia Senate runoffs were among the most important elections of our lifetime. If Ossoff and Warnock prevailed, crime bill co-author and Iraq War supporter Joe Biden was poised to usher in a a vast array of progressive policies that activists had spent years fighting for. This vision never really attempted to wrestle with the existence of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who voted with Trump most of the time, much less Kyrsten Sinema. It also didn’t spend much time contemplating the political will or priorities of Joe Biden.