Of these four, which were more reliable votes on important Democratic policy priorities: Bernie Sanders, Angus King, Joe Manchin, Kristen Sinema?
Now which of the four were Democratic Party members at the time, and which were independents who caucus with the Democrats?
The problem with Democratic policy priorities wasn’t that their razor-thin Senate majority rested on independents who had been caucusing with Democrats for quite a while prior to 2021 – 30 years, between the House and Senate, for Sanders.
Can’t go down this line of discussion unless you and I can agree that in the 117th Congress of the United States there were these many Senators of each party affiliation.
50 Republican Senators
48 Democratic Senators
2 Independent Senators
And that integers can be ordered on a number scale which allows for integers to be placed on a deterministic scale where the number 50 is larger than the number 48 and thus cannot be considered the majority in any system where the two numbers are part of the same super set.
If you can agree to those statements of fact I can go into the nuance with you, but if you want to call that a Democratic majority and treat it the same as having an actually majority, then I have no interest in further discussion
I don’t know how that gets spun as having a majority or control guts it’s irked me ever since the news started reporting it as such