[thread] John Thune
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thune
* politician serving as senior U.S. senator from South Dakota 2005+
* will become the Senate majority leader in Jan 2025
* 2024 elected Senate Republican leader, succeeding Mitch McConnell
Comment: McConnell known for filibuster (frustrating Obama), working with Leonard Leo to secure SCOTUS conservative supermajority
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#Project2025 #billionaires #libertarianism #Christofascism
Always remember that senators can end a filibuster regardless of what the majority leader wants. At any point senators can go to the floor and get on with it.
McConnell might be known for filibuster, but that's key: his role was to be a scapegoat, to be known for the thing that the rest of the chamber set up.
A whole lot of powerful senators ducked accountability by blaming McConnell for their own choices, and we really need to call attention to that.
