Opinion | The Meaning of Manchin’s ‘No’

From WSJopinion: A senator takes a stand against the American left’s style of doing politics, writes DanHenninger

With seven words Sunday—“This is a no on this legislation”—Sen. Joe Manchin sent Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer stumbling amid the ruins of Build Back Better. But it’s possible to argue that the Manchin refusal may be even bigger than that: What if Mr. Manchin’s “no” threatens the entire temple of progressivism?

In a next-day interview with a West Virginia radio station, Mr. Manchin pointed American politics and indeed its culture toward the long-term lesson of his stand:

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