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but the bonnie and clyde of the senate were full of high-minded rhetoric about the tradition, senate history that is mostly garbage. here is senator sinema last week. what is the legislative filibuster other than a tool that requires new federal policy to be broadly supported by senators representing a broader cross-section of americans, a guardrail. is the freshman senator from arizona really so obtuse as to claim that it s just a tool of the senate? surely not since the filibuster was routinely used to upend people of color for most of its history. like the nearly dozen times it was used to either kill or delay civil rights bills in the 19th and 20th century, or the three times it was used to kill anti-poll tax legislation, or the four anti-lynching bills it doomed. surely the senator from arizona knows that, or she just doesn t care. then there is maserati driving coal baron joe manchin who casts himself as a man of principle.

Kyrsten sinemaBonnie and clydeAmericans stewartCross section20th centuryJoe manchinDriving coal baronTax legislationDoesnt care