You read that headline correctly. An article on Huffington Post goes into detail on this exchange. Apparently Lindsey Graham rejects the notion of doing away with the filibuster. From Lindsey’s point of view, it almost seems like a valiant reason: to keep Trump in check.
However, the article continues with the real reason why Mitch McConnell, Lindsey and the rest of them would want to keep the filibuster:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has so far shown no indication he plans to pursue what’s known as the nuclear option...On a political level, McConnell may actually benefit from the filibuster being in place...Democrats who filibuster Trump’s agenda can then be attacked in 2018 midterms. When the Trump faithful demand to know why, say, Obamacare has yet to be repealed, McConnell will be ready with an answer: obstructionist Democrats.
It’s clear that the Republicans will use every dirty trick in the book to cudgel us into submission with our own accomplishments. Which is, frankly, nothing new. However, they control every branch of government now. It’s not enough that we just focus on revamping the DNC. As a unit, we must come together and figure out how to handle these dirty tricks given what few resources we have now to stop it.
Although the article makes Lindsey sound fairly reasonable, he does give Democrats a disgusting warning:
“(Trump’s) truly an outsider and if he will bring us all together and bring us around a table, some of this stuff will fall into place pretty quickly. To those Democrats who are going to hit him at every turn, you do so at your own peril.”
It’s clear he wants checks on Trump just so Republicans can squeeze as much out of him as possible. Republicans don’t want Democrats actually having an opinion at the table. In fact, he threatens us and tells us to hit Trump at our own peril.
We have no allies but ourselves anymore. We must come together and stop being tricked by the idea of the lesser of two evils or that there’s some pure messianic politician. We gotta have the backs of the Democrats now no matter what, even if they make some mistakes on the way. Ignore this idea at your own peril. The Democrats believes in Democracy, in helping the poor, the sick, minorities, women and basically everyone. The media and Republicans do not and haven’t for a long time. Do not let them push us down any further. Rise up to help or we all go down together.