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Mitch McConnell’s Greatest Weapon: Stay-at-Home Bernie Bros
It’s not just the Oval, but the Senate and SCOTUS, too. And Medium’s not helping.
This article is for you, the real Bernie Bros — not the right-wing trolls or those of the Internet Research Agency who pretend to be Bernie Bros, but the ones who truly believe in Progressive goals, who sincerely rage against the alleged dying of the Progressive light. Here’s what you need to learn:
It’s not just about the presidency. It’s bigger than that.
I could write a long, detailed, and referenced argument as to why Tara Reade is almost certainly lying or why Biden’s intentions are much closer to Bernie’s than most realize, but that’s not what Bernie Bros need to understand. In the past three years, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has appointed more than a quarter of all the nation’s Appeals Court judgeships. What does that mean for you? If we don’t take back the Senate, that’s two — and probably four — more years of a Republican Senate filling the nation’s judicial bench with right-wing activist judges (some of whom were considered NOT qualified by the American Bar Association).
What would that do to reproductive rights, to our social safety net, to LGBTQ equality, to minority…
