2022 is shaping up to be a continuation of our blue wave (#4485)

      The long held reality is that at the midterms of a new presidential administration, the party out of power generally does well to very well. So understanding that the next year or so is very important is critical to us getting anything done. Yet we have a democratic senator who does not hold this view and is willing to hold up needed legislation to protect his view. Which in normal circumstances would doom our democratic majorities to minority status after the midterms. But, and I say but, this is not like any other midterm that is about to take place. We are coming out of a pandemic, which is similar to what happened in the 2010 midterm but not without another very disturbing difference.
     The loser of the 2008 presidential race did not go on and on about how the election was stolen from him. This year we have that obviously false dynamic spewed by republicans broiling along with a recovery once again positively engineered by a democrat. So why does the trump cries of foul make a difference? In that crying foul when everyone with an intellect knows there was no foul is why. Like a toddler screaming for his toys that belong to everyone, trump is making the republican party choose between being sane or insane. The choice however has been made and trump and his whining has been selected. The republican party chooses to be insane in their strategy which makes this coming midterm election unlike any other.
     Which gives us democrats the whole sane playing field to operate within against the insane republican party. I know that gathering the independents to one's side is how elections are won so it surprises me that the republican party has foregone that approach. Instead they are playing to their base and trying to obstruct democratic votes. Their plan is to get every one of their voters to the polls while denying millions of others that same constitutional right. I cannot see how this strategy endears itself to independent voters. So I expect at the end of the midterms in 2022 that we democrats will increase our majorities in both houses and will then will be able to bypass Joe Manchin and shit can the filibuster once and for all.