Will Rogers once famously told the world he belonged to no organized political party–he was a Democrat. The MSM have loved that meme ever since. We are constantly told that the party is disunited and directionless. But is it true?
Let’s look at the record. Every major Biden initiative has passed the House, even though the Democrats have a microscopic majority. The pandemic relief bill and the infrastructure bill survived the Senate and became law. The BBB is opposed in its current form by two senators who are better described as independents; the 48 true Democrats support it. The voting rights legislation was supported by all 50 Democrats (real and nominal), but was stopped by the filibuster, because the two independents don’t want to change the Senate’s rules. Judicial appointments are mostly going smoothly, with the support of the independents and a few Republicans.
Does that sound like a party in disarray to you? The reality is that the party is surprisingly united, and the two senators who are holding up the rest of the agenda were never advertised as lobby fodder for the left. The problem is with the expectations, not the facts on the ground.