Joe Manchin Might Have Already Killed Democrats

3 min readNov 19, 2020

Long before the election took place, I and countless others on the left have been arguing that regardless of who wins, the left stands to lose either way. If Trump won, Democrats would have vehemently insisted that the left was responsible for king the Presidency, but they were directly responsible for the rather disappointing showing in the otherwise lackluster election for Democrats. While it was always a given that the left would emerge from this election as the prime target regardless of the outcome, the two runoff Senate elections in the state of Georgia.

the first thought that occurred to me was that if Joe Manchin were to ever run for President and make it through the primary (which, he wouldn’t), Republicans running against him would still call him a radical left socialist.

While he would certainly never acknowledge it, Joe Manchin just took it upon himself to go on national television, and had the brilliant idea to singlehandedly throw away any reason someone in the state of Georgia would have to vote for a Democrat in order for them to take the Senate. If he has already positioned himself as someone more interested in catering to the right as opposed to the left, and it’s all but

No one does more damage to the Democratic party and their electoral chances than a right wing Democratic politician.

They might vote with Republicans a lot of the time, even vote for the most controversial of their Supreme Court picks such as Brett Kavanaugh like Manchin did, but at least they can be counted on when it supposedly “matters”. Well, leave it to Joe Manchin to utterly destroy that one thing that could be said in his defense.

I wonder how many times Democrats will have to lose with this strategy before they realize that when given the option between Republican and Republican-lite, Republican voters are always going to go with the Republian.

Even if we were to set aside policies like Medicare for All or the Green New Deal, which I would never expect Manchin to be in favor of anyways, the untold damage he is doing by vowing that he will not allow Democrats to get rid of the filibuster cannot be understated.

Forget Georgia, and forget the Senate race. So long as Republican-lite Democrats like Manchin are around, it is an objective reality that Democrats won’t have a prayer of getting anything done whatsoever, let alone gaining and maintaining a majority in the Senate. But sure, it’s the left that’s the problem.

Joe Manchin Might Have Already Killed Democrats

Written by Inghasrub