"I saw a quote from Chuck Schumer yesterday in which he looked at the 2028 map and noted that it’s not impossible that Democrats could get to a filibuster-breaking 60 seats in 2029. That’s the Holy Grail of senatoring and Schumer was giddy at the prospect. It was a sobering moment inasmuch as that tells you he assumes the permanence of the filibuster and the need to operate within its strictures. That means democratic self-government at the federal level remains log-jammed forever. That is a core reason we got the last two years’ authoritarian spectacle. The executive and judicial branch didn’t become vastly more powerful in a vacuum. They grew because the legislative branch, the literal first branch, is deadlocked and unable to operate."

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