Before the election, one Q I'd ask Dems (for my info, not on record) was: What changes inside the party if Trump wins? A common answer was that they would use more norm-busting tactics because voters will have said they don't care about norms. Biden pardon not 100% in this zone but maybe 85%. - ThreadSky

daveweigel.bsky.social • 131 days ago

Before the election, one Q I'd ask Dems (for my info, not on record) was: What changes inside the party if Trump wins? A common answer was that they would use more norm-busting tactics because voters will have said they don't care about norms.

Biden pardon not 100% in this zone but maybe 85%.

Reposted from Ashton Pittman

The part that gets me is Polis is still spouting this "no one is above the law" platitude which the DOJ, the U.S. Supreme Court and a plurality of American voters have now all rejected.

Saying it doesn't make it true. Selectively holding Hunter Biden to that standard doesn't make it true.

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smakson.bsky.social•130 days ago

frnknfrk.bsky.social•131 days ago

Just peachy that it only took them eight years and two lost elections to realize that "when they go low, we go high" was never going to work.

craighayes.me•131 days ago

When they go low, you kick them into the dirt.

gibbetgiblits.bsky.social•130 days ago

A populist dem running on some
more muscular rhetoric (e.g. “fuck a pardon, hang everyone involved in Jan6”) would get a good share of male voters

coljanus.bsky.social•130 days ago

do you actually believe them though? Just knowing party leadership I don't buy that whatsoever

lowfihistory.bsky.social•131 days ago

Dems using norm-busting tactics is like playing that one game. You know, the one where you put your hands on top of someone else’s and right before they get slapped they pull them away.

daliberson.bsky.social•130 days ago

I guess it’s good to know that they’re finally getting to a page many of us have been at since…2015? I’m kinda curious if any of that actually matters when Patel is sending the FBI after the dems who skip the inauguration or whatever.

volty.bsky.social•131 days ago

call me a cynic but I'll believe it when I see it.

docstock.bsky.social•131 days ago

Yup. First thing here is to totally liquidate the doddering gerontocrats at the top of the party apparatus. They have never had the guts to do anything even remotely close to what’s necessary.

cdwilsher.bsky.social•130 days ago

Pardoning a close relative is a norm. See Carter, Clinton, Bush.

mountainmusings.bsky.social•131 days ago

Polis keeps pleading for attention. He might be going to the republicans.

docstock.bsky.social•131 days ago

This is good but, uh, we could have fucking told them that a while ago!

jennyleeglv.bsky.social•130 days ago

Yes, Dems are tired of their elected officials bringing a knife to a gun fight, but these type of pardons are not norm busting in the slightest.

rjl.bsky.social•130 days ago

I don't think they're even bringing a knife, tbh

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