Pearl clutching, hopes and prayers, or you could pack the courts and pass some laws.

@dancingtongue Ummm I agree that we're in legislative gridlock, but failing to "sink to their tactics" on principle is national suicide at this point. If we're willing to trade the moral high ground away for the Supreme Court, we may as well just nuke ourselves and get it over with.

@BlueVeins Understand the point you're making, but if you resort to their tactics you already lost the moral high ground. Biden already has nominated and had more federal judges confirmed for the lower courts than any President in recent times. It is the long game, but it is not "doing nothing". The bigger problem lies in the Senate's chokehold when the filibuster rule is abused and used to grind everything to gridlock rather than a legitimate brake for the minority to slow down the process and avoid a stampede to rash decisions. And the only way to do that is for voters to return to sending statesmen to the Senate who are more interested in bipartisanship governing than in ideological wins in some culture war.

@dancingtongue The democrats derive their moral high ground not from adherence to process, but from their support for marginalized people and civil rights, broadly. Imagine sitting down in a room with an impoverished family who just lost a child to a back alley abortion and telling them we didn't help them because following process gave us a philosophical victory.

Besides, the Republicans don't believe in process. If we always follow the rules and they don't, they're just gonna keep gaining ground on us beyond their institutional advantage, and they're gonna eventually succeed at destroying democracy anyway.