Quraishi also said that he believes political parties are not overtly vying today for the Muslim vote because of a ‘charged atmosphere of polarisation’ due to which they feel like if they ‘show softness’ to Muslims, they risk losing the favour of Hindus.
Rahul Gandhi & the Congress have not been able to formulate a fitting response to the divisiveness of Hindutva politics in a way that would be easily understood by the ordinary man, writes Smita Gupta.
mary, this is the nightmare scenario, and we ve covered the voter suppression laws. they ve been crafted as though they put a lens on november 2020 and tried to figure out how donald trump could have been successful in his efforts to overturn it, and they ve done everything they could to have made that possible. why isn t there a more focused bipartisan effort to protect the democracy from anyone like him? i think bipartisanship with the republican party as it is currently constituted is impossible, and democrats need to wake up to that very sobering fact. you cannot work with a party that essentially is anti-democratic and counter majoritarian. so democrats and all of us need to be very clear-eyed about the dangers we are facing. you know, republicans have had several opportunities to take an
happening on a 60-vote threshold. democrats are going to have to recalibrate their message about why they need more democrats in house seats and senate seats and, oh, by the way, in state legislature which is where a lot of these bills are being born and raised. the gap between the promises that are being made and what is able to be done with the rules as they exist right now is enormous. again, when you talk about joe manchin, kyrsten sinema, there could be half a dozen other democrats who feel as they do about the filibuster and who are more artful about how and when they engage on the topic, whether it s because they don t want to vote for everything that might pass from a majoritarian, more liberal house or if they fear, as sinema laid out in the op-ed, in two years democrats could be in the minority. what will a republican majority
threat to the democracy would be the tyranny of the majority and when the republicans tried to change the rules, you and i were both there and senator mccain was very involved in that, and about getting majority vote for judges, and then, senator obama said the following: what we worry about, is essentially, having two chambers, house and senate, who are simply madge joir terence majoritarian which is not what the founders intended and which is to say the intended the senate to be a place where the majority didn t rule on big issues. and senator byrd and his book reid in his book, writing about the gang of 14, said that the end of the filibuster requiring 60 votes to pass the bill would be the end of the united states senate. and i think that is why lyndon johnson in the 1960s passed the civil rights bill, in thurston s office and the republican leaders, because he understood having a bipartisan bill not