Joe Biden’s first hundred days surpassed progressive expectations with the scope of their ambition. His second hundred days are being mugged by reality: the one that says Washington DC is a place where dreams go to die. A once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure and the climate crisis has hit a wall. Reforms on gun safety, immigration and police brutality are in limbo. Legislation to expand voting rights and reduce the influence of.
Bolstering voting rights is both urgent and popular. Yet for all his talk of “existential crisis,” Biden hasn’t turned up the heat on Manchin or Sinema.
In today’s installment of vile personal attacks and strawman arguments by MSNBC. All In host Chris Hayes compared Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to segregationist Strom Thurmond because McConnell stated the obvious that it's already illegal to discriminate on the basis of race.
The ludicrous comparison came during the first segment of Chris Hayes’ show in which he detailed how segregationists in the 1950s and 1960s opposed the Civil Rights Act because the 15th Amendment already made it illegal to deny the right to vote to Americans because of their race.