Agreed! He is in an unenviable situation. Yet, he climbed the scaffold and stepped out onto the tightrope willingly – with no visible fall protection or safety net.

There might have been a moment when he was drunk on the power of his elevated position but the “fear in his eyes” tells me that Manchin knows, instead of surfing along the high wire, he could instead, end up being the crash test dummy.

This is another great article, Caren! 🙂👏🏻