News reports today say Senate Majority Leader Schumer is planning a vote to change Senate voting rules on or before the MLK Jr holiday. I expect your full support for this, and for elimination of the filibuster and expansion of the Supreme Court. Our country is on the brink of authoritarian takeover. This is a realistic assessment, not an alarmist one. If you think existing norms and processes will protect American democracy, you are wrong. I expect you to begin behaving as our very existence as a free republic is on the line every day, because it is. Business-as-usual approaches to engaging with Republican anti-democratic efforts must be abandoned. We have little time to head off an authoritarian takeover by an extremist minority. To anyone familiar with the downfall of Weimar Germany, our current situation feels all too familiar. It is incumbent on you to do everything possible to prevent this.
