Why Joe Manchin Should Join the Republican Party – The Wall Street Journal

Oct. 18, 2021 4:21 pm ET

Republican Party leaders need to woo Sen. Joe Manchin to their ranks immediately. We can ill afford to wait for the outcome of next years midterms. President Bidens proposed $3.5 trillion legislation is a malignant forced march into an unaffordable welfare state (The Entitlements of U.S. Decline, Review & Outlook, Oct. 7). Mr. Manchin has sound reasons to consider a party change. His principles are more aligned with Republican centrists, his West Virginia constituents would likely support the switch and, most important, his voting as a Republican would swing the balance of power in the Senate.

President Bidens train of abuses and usurpations, to borrow Jeffersons phrase from the Declaration of Independence, stand common sense on its head: his self-inflicted southern border crisis; his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan; his anti-fossil-fuel policies that cede our energy independence and threaten national security; his divisive claims of systemic white racism and demands for economic equality, not equality of opportunity; his Covid-19 shutdowns and vaccination mandates that threaten citizens livelihoods; and so forth.

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