Remember the good old days not so very long ago when our Never Trump "allies" were using their MSNBC-adjunct platform to hector Democrats about how we should all be on our knees thanking Sweet Baby Jebus that Joe Manchin was a Democrat, and how lucky we were, and how, if we had any sense, we'd strive to make goofs like him the future of the Democratic party.
Well, as Old King Coal fades into wealthy, ignoble obscurity, he has one knife left with which to shiv his former party in the back. From The Guardian:
Joe Manchin warns Democratic party is ‘toxic’ as he steps down from US Senate
Lifelong Democrat who became independent gives series of warnings to former party and predicts US ‘is not going left’
US senator Joe Manchin, a lifelong Democrat who left the party earlier this year to become an independent and is now stepping down from the Senate after 15 years, issued a series of warnings on Sunday to members of his former party.
“The D-brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of – it’s just, it’s toxic,” Manchin told CNN, saying he had not been able to consider himself a Democrat “in the form of what Democratic party has turned itself into”.
Manchin, a wealthy coal tycoon, said the party’s approach had become censorious and dictatorial to ordinary Americans, and he blamed progressives for the shift...
And then, having performed the ritual hippie punching, comes the inevitable...
But he also said he believed it is time for a third party in the US – called the American party – that would serve as center ground for moderate Democrats and Republicans.
“The centrist-moderate vote decides who’s going to be the president of the United States. And when they get here, they don’t govern that way. Neither side does. They go to their respective corners,” Manchin said.
“If the center had a voice and had a party that could make both of these – the Democrat, Republican party – come back, OK, that would be something.”
The coal-ash heap of history awaits you, Senator.
Either that, or an offer to head up Trump's EPA.
His Ecosystem Plundering Agency.
To make things, y'know, all "bipartisany".
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