Congressional moderates could make a party of their own

Multi-party democracy without election reform

I wrote a brief piece for Bloomberg about rumors that Joe Manchin might leave the Democratic Party that I wanted to expand on here.

He almost certainly won’t leave, both because he’s said the story is “bullshit” and also because leaving the party would be sort of pointless. Obviously, if he flipped to become a Republican that would be a big deal. But Ma…