Adam Jentleson. (2021). Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Unabridged Kalorama.

Adam Jentleson. 2021. Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Kalorama.

Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Kalorama, 2021.

Adam Jentleson. Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Unabridged Kalorama, 2021.

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An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule. As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and Republicans to blame. The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its predecessors, though to newly extreme ends. In a work for fans of How Democracies Die and even Master of the Senate, Jentleson makes clear that, without a reevaluation of Senate practices-starting with ending the filibuster-we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America.

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     Starred review from November 23, 2020
     Jentleson, who served as deputy chief of staff to former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, debuts with an engrossing primer on modern-day congressional gridlock. Frustrated by Republicans who had been using the filibuster at an unprecedented rate to obstruct President Obama’s Cabinet-level and judicial nominees, Reid invoked the so-called “nuclear option” in 2013 and changed Senate rules so that only a simple majority, rather than a three-fifths supermajority, was necessary to end debate on presidential nominees. (Legislation still requires a supermajority.) Citing Merrick Garland’s thwarted Supreme Court nomination and a gun control bill that failed to pass despite the support of 55 senators and 90% of the public, Jentleson argues that Senate rules empower “a minority of predominantly white conservatives to override our democratic system.” His suggestions for reform include doing away with supermajority requirements except where they’re mandated by the Constitution, fixing filibuster rules to revive “real debate,” and democratizing how Senate majority leaders are chosen. Jentleson skillfully clarifies many arcane legislative procedures and brings a wide range of historical episodes to vivid life. Readers will be galvanized to make the issue of Senate reform a priority.

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