[But since he is a Democrat it takes a lot more courage to go against the rest of the Democrats in the way he did.]
If Manchin doesn’t flip to the GOP, he is done. If he does this deal, even if he flips later, he’s done anyway. If Manchin becomes a born-again Republican, I could see Morrissey running against him in the primary just to settle some unfinished business from 2018.
* In 2012, Morrissey won AG by 2.5%. In 2016, he won by 10%. In 2020, he won by 28%. You can almost read the writing on the wall for 2024.
I agree with how red WV is, but even so, there are TONS of Democrats (and even Republicans) in office who don’t seem to notice what state they’re from...instead they look at this as their BIG CHANCE.
Take Court Packing and the Filibuster, for example. With both in place House Bill 1 (again, to steal elections) would be the law of the land, and any complaints that the Republicans would be taken up by a court system that is OWNED by the DNC...so Manchin would still not have to worry about re-election, other than maybe getting Primaried out, but even that would be unlikely if he supporting packing and court expansion.
So, with the above in place, short of a violent uprising (rather than a quick walk-through of the Capitol), there would not be a DAMN THING we could do about it. They Democrat DREAM to destroy this country would have everything in place. Manchin, so far, has prevented that and we’re DAMN LUCKY he did.
And don’t get me wrong - I have not and will not ever vote for a Democrat (or independent) for national office, or push doing the same, even if the Republican was as uncouth as Trump with a voting record of Susan Collins - he/she would STILL get my vote. 30 years ago there was a small overlap between parties, now there simply isn’t a single Democrat that I know of who’s to the right of our worst Republicans.