Opinion | David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don t Want to Hear – The New York Times

President Biden s agenda is in peril. Democrats hold a bare 50 seats in the Senate, which gives any member of their caucus the power to block anything he or she chooses, at least in the absence of Republican support. And Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are wielding that leverage ruthlessly.

But here s the truly frightening thought for frustrated Democrats: This might be the high-water mark of power they ll have for the next decade.

Democrats are on the precipice of an era without any hope of a governing majority. The coming year, while they still control the House, the Senate and the White House, is their last, best chance to alter course. To pass a package of democracy reforms that makes voting fairer and easier. To offer statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. To overhaul how the party talks and acts and thinks to win back the working-class voters white and nonwhite who have left them behind the electoral eight ball. If they fail, they will not get another chance. Not anytime soon.

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That, at least, is what David Shor thinks.

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The Democrats still have plenty of time to wreck a lot of things.