Collective Conscious

Peo­ple seem to be con­vinced that it is. Includ­ing peo­ple who should know bet­ter:

One pos­si­bil­ity is that Repub­li­cans make a poor show­ing at the sum­mit, embold­en­ing Democ­rats to strong-​​arm their sweep­ing health leg­is­la­tion through Con­gress with no GOP votes, which would require the use of con­tro­ver­sial rules in the Senate.

Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion is just a mat­ter of reclaim­ing the orig­i­nal func­tion of the Sen­ate. It’s about as con­tro­ver­sial as the Con­sti­tu­tion itself. Win­ning a vote by a major­ity isn’t strong-​​arming anything.