04 November 2025
Shortsighted And How
Senate Republicans should indeed be worried that President Trump is shortsighted when it comes to the filibuster, as reported in Carl Hulse’s memo in the 11/4/2025 NYT. Trump also believes that without congressional controls on him like the filibuster, the “blue slip” prerogative on prosecutor appointments, and other traditional exercises of coequal branch checks on the powers of the executive, he will indeed “get EVERYTHING approved.”
The Donald is deluded: he doesn’t allow that the Democrats will ever regain dominance in Congress. More dangerously, he entertains the thought that he or his designee will be able to extend his authoritarian regime beyond January 2029.
That prospect should concern all U.S. citizens, of course. Thank God, it seems also to have begun to concern careerist congressmen in both parties. Hopefully, it will bring them out of their obsequious stupor.
