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On Wednesday evening, the last night of the first year of Joe Biden’s presidency, the Democrats finally accepted what has been obvious for months: With their bare majority in the Senate, they could not get 50 votes to change the chamber’s rules and pass a package of voting rights bills. It’s unusual for a Senate Majority Leader, such as Chuck Schumer, to call a vote that divides his own party—and formalizes two members of his majority as pariahs—against a united opposition. But if that’s what it took to end this cycle of Democrats repeatedly running their heads into a wall on the issue, then so be it.

Democrats haven’t done much of anything other than headbutt brick walls these past several months. The party spent half a year trying to square the circle on the Build Back Better Act, their catch-all social spending and climate legislation, before Sen. Joe Manchin unceremoniously pulled the plug on it in December. Afterwards, Democrats turned to the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. These had even less chance of passing, since the Democrats ..........