He’s one of the few Democrats I personally like. He’s a throwback to when this party had some resemblance of reason. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is still a member of the party, though very much beats to his own drum. The irony is that he can do so because his state’s rapidly changing politics permit him to operate in areas that would be frowned upon from voters bases of his more ‘woke’ colleagues. Manchin won the 2010 special election. He was governor of West Virginia but was pro-coal, more anti-abortion than most other Democrats by a long shot, pro-gun, and literally shot the Cap and Trade bill in one of his old ads. You’d think he’s a Republican. Nope—just a Democrat cut from a more conservative cloth. Sure, he might have had some votes that might have been in line with Chuck Schumer and others, but Manchin is a reasonable Democrat. We can work with Manchin for sure and his latest remarks on court-packing and the filibuster only reinforces that notion (via Daily Caller):
