I’ll say this about Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the United States Senate:

The man has gall.

McConnell spent eight years shamelessly stonewalling any kind of progress during Barack Obama’s entire presidency — largely by weaponizing the filibuster.

(Originating by accident, the filibuster has a long history of use by segregationists to block civil rights legislation, and it still allows bad-faith senators like McConnell to hold all of us hostage to their regressive, unpopular ideologies.)

Then McConnell spent four years carrying water for Donald Trump, debasing himself and the Senate more times than I can count.

And now McConnell is threatening to upend Senate norms unless Democrats — who, remember, are now the majority in both chambers of Congress — guarantee that he can continue abusing the filibuster to obstruct progress.

Tell Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer:

Do not succumb to Mitch McConnell’s outrageous demand for a guarantee that he can keep abusing the filibuster and grinding progress in the Senate to a halt.

Add your name.

Thank you for taking action.

For democracy,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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