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Vox's Ezra Klein explains what will happen if Democrats win

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-03 05:25|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Maybe, but, if the Dems win, moderate Dems -- and there are a bunch of them, at least in the sense of Dems who would not get reelected if they vote with the crazies -- will be scrambling for cover, and the filibuster gives them some. "Gosh, I'd really like to vote for your $100 trillion reparations plan, but we just can't get it past the evil Thuglicans in the Senate."

Posted by Matt 2020-10-03 09:50|| 2020-10-03 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 But if I'm wrong about that, we could have a situation in which (1) the traditionally big-spending party has control and (2) we have all abandoned any pretense that the national debt should be controlled. If that happens we had better hope that Modern Monetary Theory (as I crudely understand it) is correct.

Posted by Matt 2020-10-03 09:56|| 2020-10-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 ..you mean the Caracas model?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-03 10:02|| 2020-10-03 10:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, or Argentina without the tango. Think $250 hamburgers.

Posted by Matt 2020-10-03 10:54|| 2020-10-03 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Ezra Klein, at Vox, explains why: Democrats have a long list of hard-left initiatives that they can achieve only by bulldozing them through with the smallest possible majority.

Does that include establishing a listserv of like-minded fellow Democrats to coordinate political talking points?

Posted by Raj 2020-10-03 11:12|| 2020-10-03 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 So like they did Obamacare? Got it.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-10-03 12:17|| 2020-10-03 12:17|| Front Page Top

#7 ...moderate Dems...

I thinl WeekinPictures had the response to that.

Posted by Uleger Flart6593 2020-10-03 12:41|| 2020-10-03 12:41|| Front Page Top

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