Palm Beach Post Editorial Board View Comments Last week, the Senate stopped action on the For the People Act, the wide-ranging set of voting reforms drafted by Democrats to make elections fairer and more representative. No one was surprised. Americans have become completely inured to seeing good ideas go to the Senate and die: from stricter gun laws after the slaughter of Sandy Hook schoolchildren to a congressional commission to probe the Jan. 6 attack on that very same Congress. By now, so much promising legislation has come to despair, it seems the natural path of our political system. When the Republican leader Sen. Mitch McConnell was in charge, he vowed to halt anything proposed by then-President Barack Obama and succeeded almost entirely but for the significant exception of the Affordable Care Act. McConnell no longer leads the Senate, but his power to stop President Joe Biden’s agenda is nearly as commanding, thanks to his normalization of a once-rare rule requiring 60 votes for the passage of a bill.