The evangelical church gives the Trumpist movement a nationwide organizatonal and political anchor, especially outside the big urban centers. Our side has no equivalent, but both the labor movement and Democratic Party have the potential to extend and deepen their reach and connections to regions, states, counties, and cities where the right wing and evangelical church holds political sway.

Moreover, what better time to realize that potential than now, only months before a crucial election.

While it is hard to quantify how much damage that Manchin and Sinema have wrought and how duplicitous they are, we should bear in mind that their power to make and break the Biden agenda rests on a solid, immovable block of Republican opposition in the Senate.

Thus an immediate challenge is to flip one or two or whatever Senate seats this fall.