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They re all talking about legislation basically. programs they re going to push through. medicare for all, the whole thing. and i kept thinking wait a minute, there is something missing here. you need 60 votes in the u.s. senate. that means you need a big majority, a super majority for any of these programs. you can maybe play around with the tax system, but you can t do anything in terms of programs without 60 senators. john, you start here. what world are they talking about in 2021 when we have 47 democratic senators now with an unlikely ability to even get 50, let alone 60? yeah, chris, i think they re talking a little along the lines of what governor bullock said last night from the stage there is a little bit of a wish list quality to some of the democratic proposals. it is the case that there are a lot of democrats that think the more cautious, more pragmatic style of politics that hillary clinton practiced in 2016 did not work against donald trump. and so now the argument goes ....