Abolish the filibuster. Codify Roe. Expand the Supreme Court. Protect abortion rights by any means necessary. We need all the above. This is an emergency.  – “Squad” House member Cori Bush, Tweet, May 3, 2022

Richard McDonough – The Democrats, as usual, see the current situation as an emergency.

It is, as always, so bad that many of them call to use “any means necessary” to get “all” of what they want, even overturning longstanding American norms like the filibuster, the electoral college and a nine-member Supreme Court.

The House “Justice Democrats,” which includes “Squad” members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna, Raúl Grijalva, Pramila Jayapal, and Rashida Tlaib, see socialist Ocasio-Cortez as “the opening act in an ambitious plan to … re-imagine liberal politics in America … by whatever means necessary,” an implicit threat to use violence if they cannot get what they want any other way. Continue reading →