The Dodd-Frank financial reforms did not provide the public with all the defenses we deserve against crooked and reckless bankers -- it left too-big-to-fail banks intact, for example, and fell short of a 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act, updating the landmark 1933 law that separated commercial banking from investments, but it was an important first step. The public cannot bear the risks associated with weakening it.
There will be continued pressure for progressives to "unify" behind Democrats in the face of assaults on public integrity by Trump and his fellow Republicans. But Republicans are in power, in part, because Democrats like these have undercut public support for their party.
In a world where Republicans have already been bought and paid for, there is no room for Democrats who act in bad faith. With this vote, these senators have thrown their constituents under the last bus out of town.
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