The worst Democratic governor in the nation is still fucking that chicken:

It’s funny (not ha-ha funny) that Polis thinks that being cozy with Republicans will somehow give him a political future. He’s doing things like posting selfies of him and his buddy Lauren Boebert attending Rockies games. Fortunately for Colorado, there’s no political future for him, period — he’s hated by every part of the Colorado Democratic Party and he’s a gay dude from Boulder, which disqualifies him for any serious role in the Republican Party.

I’m still learning Colorado politics, but one of the tricks that Polis liked to pull was vetoing a bunch of progressive legislation after the legislature was out of session. Colorado doesn’t have a “veto session,” a short session where the legislature has the opportunity to override vetos. This seems like something the legislature should change in order to curb an anti-democratic governor like Polis. (I don’t know the details of how that would happen, more study needed on my part.)

In general, if we’re going to defeat MAGA, and reign in our own rogues, we have to understand how to deal with a lawless executive and a corrupt Supreme Court. This involves a lot of smart legislating, using Congressional power over the Court, and it involves the will to push to the boundaries of convention and law.

There was some discussion of the filibuster in the comments of the last post, and I’m for eliminating it, but let’s consider something else: blocking a Supreme Court appointment. This has nothing to do with the filibuster — McConnell just refused to allow hearings after Obama nominated Merrick Garland. If for some reason Fox News Grandpa Sam Alito decides to hold his retirement until next year, and Democrats have a majority in the Senate, can you imagine Chuck Schumer doing what McConnell did? I can’t. He and a good number of other Senate-brained Democrats wouldn’t be willing to violate the sacred norms of the Senate.

This is what the current scrap in the Democratic Party is about: who’s going to realize that we need to fight as hard as Republicans for what we believe? It isn’t just about Israel and Gaza — those are key issues that are also signifiers that the base is using to understand who’s willing to buck the orthodoxy. It’s about imagining leaders who are as committed to our agenda as Mitch McConnell was committed to the Republican one of making Obama a one-term President. Only that level of commitment will lead to a real cleanup of the MAGA mess that Trump & Co are going to leave. And it’s about building guardrails so feckless Democrats can’t fuck us over the way Polis did.