Manchin Deflates Democrats’ Hopes of Changing Filibuster, Passing Election Bills - WSJ

“Any way you can do a rules change to where everyone’s involved and basically that’s a rule that usually will stay—that’s what you should be pursuing,” Mr. Manchin told reporters on Tuesday.

Our system has so many fail-safes designed to lower passions and foster debate. I don’t understand the desire to take a sledgehammer to all of them.