Democrats in a panic

Bare majorities in the House and Senate have tied Democrats in knots. Their agenda is stuck in first-gear, because unlike a dozen years ago when Obama was first president, Democrats have to compromise if they are going to get anything done.

Democrats call compromise the C-word.

The biggest problem for Democrats is they cheated to win in 2020 by getting states to violate their own election laws to make it easier to stuff the ballot box with mail-in votes.

If Democrats do not codify those mid-election rule changes, Biden could be their last president.

Atlantic reported, "Anxiety is growing among a broad range of civil-rights, democracy-reform, and liberal groups over whether Democrats are responding with enough urgency to the accelerating Republican efforts to both suppress voting and potentially overturn future Democratic election victories."

Democrats want "to pass the national election standards," which means federalizing all election, which means having the federal bureaucracy decide who wins what election. Look for demands for diversity and equity to ensure Democrat victories. Poca Town Hall could look like a Harvard faculty meeting.

But Republicans have the votes to stop them in the Senate.

So far, Republicans are.

Atlantic reported, "Activists have become more and more uncertain that Democratic leaders have a strategy to overcome Manchin’s hesitance, not to mention his (and other Democrats’) refusal to pare back the filibuster, which Republicans are certain to employ against any voting-rights legislation. What’s more, these activists fear that by focusing relatively little attention on red states’ actions, Democrats aren’t doing enough to create a climate of public opinion in which Manchin and others could feel pressure to act on the issue of voting rights if and when Senate Republicans filibuster against it."

Republican state legislators are locking the barn door after the 2020 horse escaped. They must. The 2022 and 2024 ponies are at stake.

Atlantic writer Ronald Brownstein wrote, "In a conference call with reporters last week, Beto O’Rourke, the 2018 Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, didn’t mince words when I asked him whether the White House and Democratic congressional leaders are showing sufficient concern about the GOP’s moves."

If Beto O'Rourke is the future of the party, it should be dead. But Beto married a billionaire's daughter, and money talks.

Fernand Amandi, a longtime Democratic pollster based in Florida, told Atlantic, "I fear that perhaps some Democratic leaders may be suffering from … the idea that this cannot happen here and are bordering on dereliction of duty in not sounding the alarm to the American people and to the community of nations about the existential threat that the Republican Party now presents to American democracy."

By that, Amandi means Republicans pose an existential threat to American Democrats.

The purpose of the Atlantic article is to try to get Biden to demand voting be federalized.

Atlantic said, "White House officials dismiss the idea that Biden is insufficiently concerned about red states’ maneuvers, which have included reducing access to mail balloting and early voting, imposing new voter-identification requirements, purging voters from registration lists, limiting the use of ballot drop boxes, blocking state-court oversight of voting laws, and increasing Republican state officials’ authority to override the decisions of local election officials, many of whom are Democrats. 'I can assure people there is no one that worries more about the effect of these things on the 2024 election than the president, who will be running and who went through 2020,' the senior White House official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, told me. (The official said Biden is planning to deliver a speech to underscore his commitment to voting rights that will likely come within the next few days.)"

They are calling their changes in elections voting rights.

It is just like abortion rights except instead of killing babies, Democrats are killing our constitutional republic.

Republicans are not stupid. So far, they are holding together.

So far.