Conservatives disgusted with ex-RNC chairman Steele for defending filibuster elimination as 'common sense'

MSNBC analyst and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele called ending the filibuster “common sense" on Tuesday, disgusting conservatives for his embrace of the position clamored for by liberal Democrats.

"We're not asking for the federal government to control voting. We're asking, can you just create a platform in which we can access voting in our own states? And yet they're falling back on these procedural arguments as if people give a damn, and they don't," Steele said. "They just want you to do the … legislation. This is not rocket science. It's common sense." The party's left flank is urging Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to reverse their stance against ending the filibuster and make it easier to pass sweeping left-wing legislation like the For The People Act. Conservatives jumped on Steele, who is already unpopular on the right given his politics have taken a heel turn like so many others in the Trump era.