The Democrats in office can’t do shit. There are not enough of them. Democrats cannot filibuster the president’s appointments because they themselves removed the filibuster rule on appointments below the level of the Supreme Court back in 2013. They could use the filibuster on some bills, but you’d have to get all of the dems to vote in lock-step like the republicans do. Good luck with that considering how many democrats are only democrats in name so they could get elected in their districts and then they vote with the republicans more often than not.
If you want change, you need to convince the republicans in office that they are going to lose their jobs. They do not support Trump because they necessarily agree with him, they do it because, as Murkowski has publicly admitted, they are afraid of him. We voters need to rally, make noise, and make them afraid of us. There are not enough MAGA voters to keep the republicans in office if enough of the rest of us actually show up to vote. We voters need to convince them that they will be out of their cushy jobs if they don’t stop this lunatic.
That’s why they need to be thinking long-term, not reactionary. They need to be looking inward and ousting the ghouls in their leadership. Find actual progressive issues that the majority of people want. Focus on winning the midterms and taking away the majority from the republicans.
Instead, it sounds like they’ve learned nothing. They refuse to look inward and want to appeal to their big donors. Continuing to embrace the same moderate policies that lost the presidency, the house, and the senate. They refuse to acknowledge the big tent item that binds the majority of us. The owner class is fucking over the labor class.
His slathering hordes are something to be reasonably afraid of. Also, he did nearly manage to overthrow our government and did manage to get himself reelected four years later. He may be more effective that you think.
The Democrats in office can’t do shit. There are not enough of them. Democrats cannot filibuster the president’s appointments because they themselves removed the filibuster rule on appointments below the level of the Supreme Court back in 2013. They could use the filibuster on some bills, but you’d have to get all of the dems to vote in lock-step like the republicans do. Good luck with that considering how many democrats are only democrats in name so they could get elected in their districts and then they vote with the republicans more often than not.
If you want change, you need to convince the republicans in office that they are going to lose their jobs. They do not support Trump because they necessarily agree with him, they do it because, as Murkowski has publicly admitted, they are afraid of him. We voters need to rally, make noise, and make them afraid of us. There are not enough MAGA voters to keep the republicans in office if enough of the rest of us actually show up to vote. We voters need to convince them that they will be out of their cushy jobs if they don’t stop this lunatic.
That’s why they need to be thinking long-term, not reactionary. They need to be looking inward and ousting the ghouls in their leadership. Find actual progressive issues that the majority of people want. Focus on winning the midterms and taking away the majority from the republicans.
Instead, it sounds like they’ve learned nothing. They refuse to look inward and want to appeal to their big donors. Continuing to embrace the same moderate policies that lost the presidency, the house, and the senate. They refuse to acknowledge the big tent item that binds the majority of us. The owner class is fucking over the labor class.
Yep.
I can’t imagine putting myself into a situation where I had to fear someone as ineffectual as Trump.
His slathering hordes are something to be reasonably afraid of. Also, he did nearly manage to overthrow our government and did manage to get himself reelected four years later. He may be more effective that you think.
He’s not ineffectual at being a cult leader with a rabid following, and he controls the DoJ
They’re not scared of Trump personally doing anything to them.