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Gee, I don't know, primary him with someone that actually delivers on stuff and doesn't hold things hostage on a power trip and back the hell out of that candidate? Tell him that if he doesn't get in line, they'll actively block his future attempts at getting some pork barrel spending pushed through for WV? Literally anything besides throwing up their hands and saying "We've tried nothing and it didn't work, guess that's it. We just have to deal with this guy until he retires, I guess." would have been a great start.
This whole fucking post is about how we're kind of stuck with the least bad of 2 bad options because of our voting system and you just suggested running someone against a Dem which would risk getting a Republican elected.... On top of expecting a more progressive candidate to win in West Fucking Virginia.
Maybe? This is so milquetoast though and I'd be surprised if it hasn't already happened.
Well, doing absolutely nothing about him and similar candidates has turned out so well for them, hasn't it? This is the sort of garbage justification that has voters increasingly disillusioned with the Democratic party. We're supposed to believe they'll actually deliver on any of the much more difficult parts of their platform with Republican opposition that will be much worse when they can't even get an idiot like Manchin or Sinema to fall in line when it actually matters, and can't do anything about it? Like, that was supposed to be the whole deal with Manchin to begin with, that we accept he'll push back on things a bit, but he'll fall in with the party when it counts. How's that played out lately?
If this is the best strategy the Democrats could cobble together, they may as well just quit politics, hand the reins over to the christofascists and stop pretending at this point.