Every Republican Senator basically telling reporters, "look I think my colleagues are really opposed to this one, and if they vote no I will too." And nobody actually being brave enough to do it - ThreadSky

dlknowles.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Every Republican Senator basically telling reporters, "look I think my colleagues are really opposed to this one, and if they vote no I will too." And nobody actually being brave enough to do it

Reposted from Dave Weigel

This is why I really have no time for the "behind the scenes, Republicans say yadda yadda yadda." This is a public-facing business. If you tell a reporter you don't want to vote "aye" then you vote "aye," who cares?

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reasonablerandom.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Candy Ass Caucus set to The Lollipop Guild

t0nyyates.bsky.social•2 days ago

It may not unreasonably be a coordination failure. If a lot of them agree to do it together, they are harder to target and unseat.

fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't think it's a coordination failure so much as a "the defining characteristic of the modern Republican Party is cowardice" failure.

t0nyyates.bsky.social•2 days ago

These theories - and none of us really know - are not contradictory. The point is that you have less to fear as a coward if there are large numbers of you.

marshmellowpeep.bsky.social•2 days ago

Even many of the true Trump believers will end up in gitmo, better to go down swinging

dlknowles.bsky.social•2 days ago

yes that's my exact argument

greygosling.bsky.social•2 days ago

How hard is it for 4 people to coordinate? Not exactly rocket science.

t0nyyates.bsky.social•2 days ago

The argument here is that the minimum number is not the number to get a blocking majority, it's the number to make it hard to primary/abuse/target/harass.

greygosling.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fair, but that's going to have to be a really large number of people given Elon's money/foghorn, the money in US politics generally. Impossible to avoid the need for some courage.

dlknowles.bsky.social•2 days ago

Which is to say, Trump is winning a whole bunch of fights because basically everyone is assuming somebody else will stand up to him, so they can keep their heads down

petershulman.bsky.social•2 days ago

The motto of GOP since 2016, now on steroids.

paulframe85.bsky.social•2 days ago

Goes to show that McConnell is no Johnson in any way, shape or form.

neonnomad.bsky.social•2 days ago

I really don’t believe this anymore. Republicans at this point are totally fine with the coup and selling out the country & constitution - every single damned one of them.

bedubble.bsky.social•2 days ago

the prisoners dilemma but there’s no immediate downside risk

dlknowles.bsky.social•2 days ago

The conventional wisdom in Washington at the moment is "Donald Trump is trying to turn America into a dictatorship, but he won't succeed, because nobody wants this, and the courts and so on will definitely stop it, so I personally am going to stand back and wait it out and say nothing"

chase.hulderman.me•2 days ago

That feels like the "conventional wisdom" everywhere. I don't think anyone full understands the ground we're ceding in the process.

chase.hulderman.me•2 days ago

What makes it worse is that people find the need to moderate their language. "Europe should be more active and stop relying on the US, but Trump shouldn't have said it was Z's fault."

We do really need to have more fiscal discipline and get rid of the WFA, but he should be working through Congress.

numb.comfortab.ly•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/post/3lhe7fo2ql22q

mrtpsm.bsky.social•2 days ago

antifagurl.bsky.social•2 days ago

In other words m, ya’ll deserve to live under a dictatorship

wayfaringwit.bsky.social•2 days ago

This logic is also how Trump first won the 2016 GOP primaries, how Trump avoided impeachment, and how a lot of voters decided they could afford a protest vote in the last three presidential elections

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