if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
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Republicans are so much better at confrontation. I'm fed up with whiny Democrats posting about how outraged they are. Walk to the buildings where offices are being invaded by unelected creeps. Actually do everything within their power as human beings, an elected officials, and angry citizens.
What troubled me this cycle was how fast Dems gave up and went straight to begging for money. I am not giving another dime till someone steps up to be the leader we need.
I'll consider supporting those who stand up. Particularly locals, who I can call or write and say "I'm supporting you because you did X,y and z, don't let us down"
better figure out a way to organize and bring about progress without the need for dem leaders to step up, because if they do it'll be to betray you in the end like the other times
You are 100% correct. To pass legislation requires 60 votes in a white, conservative Senate. Conservatives only desire tax cuts for the wealthy and appointing conservative judges—both of which require only 50 votes.
The asymmetry by which treasonous seditious tearing down the government is so easy, & by which choosing to remain a United States is so fraught is so revolting.
Beating the drums of war against the state has gone on and on. It's such a horror that they finally get what they've asked for all along.
Very obscure parlimentary ruling. You need a veto proof super majority to do something insane like heal the sick, but if you just want to hand the entire treasury to some guy who bribes you, that's a simple majority.
Crime spree or not, it’s illegal for Musk and his employees to be in the government’s payment system without clearance. And I have yet to find anything that gives a president the authority to give security clearance to an outsider when the military wouldn’t grant it!
Nothing will change until democrats get a supermajority. And no, progressivism isn’t the miracle pill to voter apathy, because most swing voters dgaf about social programs if more POC benefit than they do.
Noting that Biden sucked does not mean that they voted for Trump. It does not mean that they didn't vote for Harris. It definitely does not mean you are smarter than them when the first place your mind goes is "Trump is worse".
Arch you get a big ole AMEN brother from me on that post!!And a big ole follow! Netanyahu is a horrible man&I thought a criminal wasn’t he indicted,so Hamas knew exactly who they were deaing with & exactly what he would do to those innocent women and children.They knew he would never relent.
I mean yes, in the sense that the bare majority is needed for budget issues, and with the NEW issue of "all pardons are fine there are no corrupt pardons so no limits on the president and therefore no charges possible for anyone he HAS do anything either"
There is no more American politics. There is only the will of the Techno-fascist bros. Ruled by people named "Big Balls." It's both the dumbest and worst way to end a country, short of doing it on reality tv. We have reality tv stars and tv stars running everything so it's adjacent to worst ending.
Musk is an unelected, unappointed, unaccountable agent but he and his thugs took over the treasury and USAID. They now have access to everyone's private information including our SS numbers. Musk's thugs, who are paid out of Musk's person payroll, can destroy resisters.
The imbecile democraps like killing their own agenda with the filibuster to maintain the illusion that they are pretending to try to accomplish things, but the repugnants have no issue with squashing the filibuster to get what they want.
It’s similar to the adage that airport security must succeed every single time, but terrorists only have to succeed once. It’s a lot easier to obstruct, destroy, and restrict than it is to pass constructive legislation that benefits everyone.
Especially since the GOP can effectively overturn programs by defunding them through budget reconciliation (which only requires a simple majority) while Democrats can’t create without 60 votes.
Yeah, we got bad guys lining up for another 9/11! I mean with lax security for airports, why wouldn’t they seize the moment, then have Trump blame anyone associated with Biden for it? If something like that happens again, you can bet it’ll be much worse this time!
Yup. The Democrats are playing by the rules of a board game that's been stomped, trashed and shit upon by Right. The press is treating this, by an large, as a normal presidency, not a coup or the dismantling of the US.
Indeed! Until something can be done to get their attention or hit their bottom profit line, I’m not sure how to break this division of realities. Clearly, half the country hears one set of news and the other half hears another. We are screwed until this can be fixed.
After the civil War, in the spirit of reunification, all was forgiven and allowed to Fester so it could pop up every 10 or 20 years with some horrible manifestation
All is forgiven again and then it's allowed to Fester so it can pop up every 10 or 20 years with some
Yep. Civil War never ended because we let the Confederates LIVE and retain power. The current Neo-Confederacy has been hell bent to address the “L” they took in the 1968 Civil Rights act (that honestly only passed cause of the week of riots & the fact that we had 500k+ troops in Vietnam)
160 years of societal change, it's not just 60 years. While the rest of us have been going through the pain and growth of reconciling the past, they refused to admit anything was ever wrong
They've been swallowing hard on change and just vomited it up in 2 weeks.
Man what you're describing is exactly why I think forgiveness is not healing and is actually a super problematic concept mired in western Christian bs. I believe in accountability culture and transformative justice. This bottle it up cycle never works. People have to be held accountable.
This is cope to justify people’s apathy. I know top Democrats. One of my parents was chief of staff to a top Democrat. The hatred that they have for Trump and Republicans is real. Maybe it’s just that the people we know are in the House or in blue cities, but we also know my governor.
I wish I were lying. I wish I could say that I didn’t have to hear long-ass rants about the republicans, growing up, but I did. My parents and their family friends are not lying about their contempt for Republicans.
Bill Clinton took a bunch of Reagan republicans, labeled them neo-Dems and installed them in the party as leadership. Anyone center left was eliminated by pelosi or the clinton machine, until the party had been overthrown. Then they abandoned the states and sold themselves to wall street.
Thomas frank is full of crap. He is right about one thing, they are out of touch with voters. But it isn't because of liberals, it's because they are all neo-dems or republicans in blue. Center right losers.
This is so fucking stupid. The American people gave all the power and the keys to the kingdom to Trump and the GOP. This isn't an Indiana Jones movie ... the Dems are the minority party with no power.
The Democrats are powerless because clueless morons have been undermining them for years, bothsidesing, not voting, voting for Jill Stein, etc. You reap what you sow.
Why bother needing votes when you can just control the voting machines, squelch legitimate journalism and convince the sheeple it’s all fake news, and redesign the govt so it’s an oligarchical fascist theocracy within a week?
Enough with the BlueAnon shit. Elon didn’t hack the voting machines, half of America was sucked in by trump’s stream of hate because they really, unironically craved a country where all the pesky Queers and Blacks get knocked down a peg.
And they’re mad about not being able to say “Merry Christmas” and mad because “woke” and that “lazy people get checks from the government” and “taxes”… I wish I could believe there was a hack job, but too many of my actual neighbors having been mad at life and haven’t stfu about it.
how about no? did you sleep through the election? swing states blue down ballot except president? trumps comments about "having the votes" his comments on how elon "knows the voting machines" the bomb threats traced the russia? the voter purges? the votes that werent marked counted?
I would really like for this to be a case of Trump cheating, but it’s far more in line with what I’ve seen brewing to say that the alt right has significant cultural real estate because there’s a lot of angry white men in the country
oh theres no doubt way too many. but trump only won by like 2% if it werent for all the cheating he likely wouldnt have won. its not a conspiracy, these things all verifiably happened. something like 5 million voters were purged mostly black people and other minority groups in blue states.
Do you have a source for Elon using starlink to hack the voting machines? That’s a claim I hear constantly, from people who wish that it wasn’t just fascism being massively popular these days
Also, if we want to fund any social program that benefits the public, we have to tirelessly debate the cost of said policies endlessly, justifying every used cent for ppl who "may or may not deserve it."
Yet our reps are 'unpatriotic' if they don't sign the blank checks for the DoD.
Casual reminder tons of regular people never recouped their 2008 recession losses. The government bails out the too big to fails but us average Americans are conveniently small enough to fail long and hard, repeatedly.
The Democrats are the nerds who think rules and procedure and laws matter, the Republicans are the bullies in the schoolyard who take their lunch money.
They think that following the rules is enough... But that enforcing them is a bridge too far, because they want to look like the good guys, not rile up the bullies who bully them constantly.
It’s the other way around. The Reps always stood by the courts and legislator and the Dems ran circles around them with making up stuff and the Repa waited to try to legislate it or wait for the court to make a decision that took years. It’s now that the Reps are in control that it seems that way
They were supposed to be the grownups who hold the bullies and the nerds and everyone to the rules. Bullies aren't supposed to take over the school. You can't blame the lawful for the unlawful cheating. Rules do work. Something unusual has happened. Sophisticated, organized cheating.
The modern version would be the straight A students spending all their spare time studying, while the D students just uses AI to write their essays to get an A and spends their time partying instead.
No, the original analogy was dead-on. Democrat leaders are feckless idiots who placed their egos and petty squabbles above the national interest because they thought “checks and balances” would save them and Trump and his crew are the dipshit bullies who just took what they wanted.
I would argue that it is unfair to say Dem Leaders are feckless idiots who placed their egos and petty squabbles above the nat'l interest when the other party is literally built on a foundation of lies. There may be bad ones, but most dems have principals, while all repubs are liars or lied to.
Trump and his crew being fascists doesn’t make the leaders of the only alternative political party intelligent strategists. Did they or did they not just lose a winnable election and in doing so roll out the red carpet for fascists?
Essentially. This was an election of the corporatists vs. the oligarchs and the oligarchs won.
Because the corporatists’ puppets are incompetent and the oligarchs own the main instruments of mass influence (and understand how to wield them effectively).
Agree. The corporations chose incompetent leaders so they wouldn't stand up to them and their profits, but made the mistake of thinking they had suppressed any enemies. They have shot themselves in the foot with that approach. All the strong leaders have been destroyed or pushed down by them.
You mean there parents are paying someone else to do all their work. The book manager at the toy store I worked at literally got paid by a mom to do all her kids homework and projects for years.
The Democrats are playing by the rules of a board game that's been stomped, trashed and shit upon by Right. The press is treating this, by an large, as a normal presidency, not a coup or the dismantling of the US.
Republicans still play by the rules, at least nominally. Budget reconciliation (which only requires a simple majority) is how they strip programs of funding. You need 60 votes to create new programs.
Well I would argue that MAGAism and "national conservatism" isn't exactly conservative, unlike progressive-minded conservatism, as envisaged by a sizeable chunk of the Democratic Party.
Put another way, Democrats are perhaps more conservative—in the true sense—than MAGA.
The way I see it, conservatism commands respect for peace, law, justice, and order, not celebrating riots, felons, or mindless hatred. It may well be opposed to certain phenomena (e.g. transgenderism) but it doesn't view lawlessness as a salutary way of vindicating those policy objections.
that seems to be how the "parliamentarian" operates, yes. essentially a gatekeeper to protect elitist power gains from meeting the basic needs of "the mob"(in other words "the people")
Losing everything all the time doesn’t just happen. It takes work. Centrist Dems blew up anything that didn’t pass thru donor’s hands in Biden’s agenda that won in 2020 and would have decimated MAGA by helping them. They needed child care and a public option. They got a new runway at the airport.
Yeah because the things progressives want cost money and have to be passed by legislation and everything that’s happening right now is being done by executive order with the benefit of a hugely friendly Supreme Court. You’re not making an honest comparison.
Sec 3 DOGE Structure. (a) The United States Digital Service is hereby renamed as the United States DOGE Service (USDS) established in the Executive Office of the President…dedicated to advancing the President’s 18-month DOGE agenda.
Yes, building things takes longer than demolishing things. True for homes, businesses, marriages, art etc. This is universal. It takes years to build
Consensus on something lasting and positive and only minutes, hours or days to tear it down.
Much easier to destroy than to build. Why do you think conservatives like to pass so many laws while claiming they hate government. If the laws protect them, their institutions are harder to destroy.
Take advantage of it how? They were blocked by the filibuster, and Sinema and Manchin refused to budge on getting rid of it. Manchin’s seat would 100% go to a Republican if he lost the primaries, so the threat of primarying him wasn’t effective. They passed the first gun control law in two decades.
If they had been smart, they would have publicly castigated everyone who didn't support the popular agenda.
Also, Biden negotiated a deal with Manchin "you agree to this bill and I'll support yours" but convinced the holdouts in the progressive caucus to support Manchin's bill on blind trust.
Also, Manchin was already clearly guilty of several federal crimes; Biden and the democraps could have used them to abuse him to influence him -- Biden had access to the bully pulpit but was as usual too cowardly to do use it because he's pretending to be a good guy, but is actually a doormat.
All that said, if Biden had chosen a competent AG the insurrectionists in congress, all of whom were repugnants, would not have been in congress, giving the dems lots of opportunities to use the insurrection in special elections to hammer the repugnants.
What are you talking about? If anything the clear messaging before the election was "if you elect a fascist, he is going to do fascist things". If some people thought I take my chances with that and just don't vote at all then - that's one conclusion one might could have...
How long are you going to cry about people of morals refusing to vote for an administration that had very much promised to keep murdering women and children?
Who says that? But you can't decide to not vote and then complain that you didn't get the results you wanted. You could have voted against it in the first place. Also, what does that have to do with messaging?
There are many groups responsible for where we are today, but I will do my best to make sure the histories understand how ossified, venal, and willfully useless the Democratic Party has been and how it contributed to what happened. Even now, today, they are still being useless.
Sure, like you said yourself, why take responsibility for your own actions If you instead can solely blame a party. So whats your plan now? Just complain or are you gonna do something productive about it?
They were literally offering doubling the minimum wage, legalizing weed, banning private equity groups from the housing market (which is the main cause of increased housing prices) and giving a 25k tax credit to first-time home-buyers.
Reason, logic, facts, or the law have NEVER stood in Trump's way. When all of these fail, what's left? No one wants to say it. No one wants to do it. We are victims of convenience, one and all,
And we were right.
An unelected man and his tech bros have overtaken the US Treasury and now have control of all of our money and data. Where is the FBI and why have they not arrested them already?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that fascists actually like genocide a whole lot. Seems to me like if the party saying "vote for us to oppose fascism" is arming a genocide, then your options are between fascism classic and diet fascism.
She talked about it in the debates and campaign speeches and had a massive web page laying it all out. If you wanted to know, the information was easily found.
Americans are lazy as fuck. Telling them to do some homework isn’t a winning pitch. We need some leftwing (or even center-left) demagoguery to get dem voters fired up. Stop trying to flip republicans and instead focus on voters that are at least nominally already on our side
Idk, vote for them If you don't want fascism, chaos and despair? But I have to imagine for some that's not enough! Seems like an easy choice to me! But that's just me, I happen to really hate fascism and don't want other people to get hurt!
Whats your tried recommendation for the election btw.? Not voting at all or voting for a party that doesn't stand a chance to get into parliament - but ticks all the right boxes?
Dems have been trying to float the politics of a protection racket. Be a shame if someone came in & busted up the place, right? everything stays pretty much the same, including in every way that hurts you and that you hate, as long as you dont vote for the other guys.
But if you actually ask them to do something you need they say youre a lunatic fanatic, "we dont need your vote, conservatives will make up for it." Until they dont, then its the fault of everyone whose vote they didnt need
It was never sustainable politics to be the status quo process managers for dystopia who hate & marginalize their own base, and now it should be obvious why, but the ppl who participated in that system refuse to acknowledge that failure
Right the clear messaging which involved calling republicans a threat to democracy followed by a very comprehensible pivot to accepting endorsements from the Cheney family and loudly and repeatedly declaring she wanted to nominate one for a cabinet position.
Also, I highly doubt the Dems sincerity in calling the GOP fash (which they are) when they wanted bipartisanship with them, supported and facilitated genocide, and are now helping them get what they want. Hell Obama laughed with Trump, and Biden said “welcome home” to Trump. Fuck them all.
Couldn’t vote if I wanted to. Also if every third party vote went towards Harris, she would have still lost. Also! A vote for Harris a vote for Harris, a vote for Trump is a vote for Trump, a vote for Stein is a vote for Stein. Votes don’t magically become votes for someone else.
Voting for anyone other than for the only viable alternative was effectively a de facto vote for Asshole. So stand on the sidelines and throw rocks I guess. Purity tests ain't gonna help
This is what makes my blood boil. Democrats self-sabotaging purity tests. It's so short-sighted. Literally tiktok intellectualism. Jews and Muslims have been fighting for a millennium. Cutting your nose off to show your face who's boss is dumb. If the US is weak we can't help anyone. Including you.
The democrats do not care about the people at all, they care only about empire and the ruling elite. They picked genocide over winning an election. If the Dems wanted to win, they should have tried to earn people’s votes.
It was very clear! The orange man is an unfathomable criminal element surrounded by criminals and our government, run by Democrats, can not touch him. Our friends across the aisle must save us. Also, Joe Biden is the best at effectively killing Gazans and deporting Mexicans.
I voted full ticket Democratic, but if you want to believe Democrats are powerless smol beans who did their best, then we're doomed to fascism forever. You guys are constantly on the beat to defend our head coach taking us to another 6-10 season.
Maybe Democrats should try fighting fascism instead of helping fascism. Your messaging sucks because your actions suck. If all you can say is “the other guy is terrible” while you yourself are also terrible…you lose. Learn the lesson.
Alright, let's paint a world where Harris won. 4 years later, the Democrats have done... Most likely nothing at all? And then Republicans try to be fascists again? Or did you think only Trump was the problem. The party needs to change if they want to avoid crises.
If the only thing they can say is “we’re not the other guy,” they’re just as fascist. They’ve been holding Americans by the short hairs for decades because of course we’re not going to meaningfully help you, but at least we’re not the other guy.
WE DID VOTE
Quit believing a fraudulent election
The fact the dems haven't said a word about THAT is the most vomit inducing part.
Then just HANDED us over to the fascists with a goddamn SMILE.
Elon Musk hacked us and bought six swing states. @whitehouse.senate.gov @magaziner.house.gov Democrats wanted it that way and put legs in the air for it. #NoConfidence
My co-worker who didn’t vote still believes that in the end trump will fix everything…. You can’t fix these people without destroying social media. Which will never happen ….. it’s sad and disgusting
Andrew Coyne said it well, “the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else.”
They're powered and motivated to do the thing they want to do(nothing) and other notable things like expunge the party of people who would do something.
They saw what happened to the GOP in 2010 with the Tea Party/MAGA taking seats, especially Eric Cantor. Then when AOC won the primary against an incumbent Pelosi and team made sure any sort of movement on the left was squashed. Isolated them in a group called the Squad and let the MSM do the rest.
AOC and other Progressives have hardly been silenced and continue to be a growing force in the party. Meanwhile GOP is MAGA now. And not one dares to question Dear Leader.
AOC is about the only voice at the moment except for Bernie who isn't really a democrat and good for him.
The progressive growth in seats is dwarfed comparted to how fast the Tea Party took over but then again there was a lot of money behind those candidates.
Jasmine Crockett, Maxwell Frost, Jared Moskowitz are just a few of the vocal Progressives. Malcolm Kenyatta was just named a vice Chair of the DNC. They are all young and future leaders of the party. And Elizabeth Warren remains one of most effective legislators. More effective than Bernie.
yeah, now that you mention it, the majority of Democrats ran from the party (with significant investment in doing so) last couple years were disproportionately Black and Brown and female ....odd thing isn't it?
MAGA and their leadership certainly has gotten lily white. Trump’s Cabinet is also mostly billionaires. Didn’t take Musk long to disappear the one brown guy, Ramaswamy, from the inner circle
I'd vastly prefer dragging our hypothetical dumb little brother into the ocean kicking and screaming and drowning the little bastard before he kills us all in our sleep.
That's because Dems are the only ones worried about rules while Republicans break every norm! Dems are silent right now because they don't know what to do, there's no leader, no agenda no message to fight back!
No, it’s because of the filibuster. The GOP only wants tax cuts for the rich and conservative judges. Both of these require only 50 votes. Dems want to pass abortion rights, health care, gun control, but those require 60 votes. The Senate is a white conservative body, making all these laws DOA.
Repubs control all three branches of our government. Dems are in a tough position; of course, that doesn't mean they should be doormats, they can deny requests for Unanimous Consent, oppose Cloture Votes, request a Quorum Call at every opportunity, but they must be strategic.
Dems usually just freeze up and do nothing, rather than do the right thing (at least they don't do the blatantly wrong thing). Because it's just a costume for the powers-that-be. They don't actually want to be effective in ways that will disempower the anti-social system they benefit from.
It's a mistake to reach for the right's tools when they seem effective and we aren't feeling very effective. Their tools are only effective for anti-social ends. They will be counterproductive for our pro-social ends. We get more effective when we behave pro-socially and ethically.
I agree. It's my biggest complaint about the character of the Democratic party. Rules, laws, norms, yes, they're important, but you can't defeat a party of moral bankruptcy with please'n thank you diplomacy.
Please keep telling your dem colleagues that most of us think they're failing us. I know YOU see what the GOP is doing is a campaign of confusion so people don't know HOW to fight against it. The old dogs don't. Teach them.
Correct. Think of democratic politics as this. We sit back and not be Trump. Make a speech or two. Pretend they care. Then talk to lobbiest about next cycle, check portfolio, and then rinse and repeat. dnc they had same ideas .You can tell they have learned nothing from their recent ass stomping
Do y’all know what budget reconciliation is? That’s how the tax cuts were passed and how social programs are defunded by the GOP. Budget reconciliation only requires a simple majority (51). Biden added millions to social programs this way. But you can’t create new programs without 60 votes.
Jokes aside, it's because executive orders are easily reversible, so the only way to create permanent lasting change is to get those 60 senate votes (and preferably some Supreme Court nominations)
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Are these connections and similarities just a coincidence?
History can be fun sometimes...
Beating the drums of war against the state has gone on and on. It's such a horror that they finally get what they've asked for all along.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-is-a-lawless-madman-elon-is?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Fixed that problem.
Now Netanyahu will not be able to harm Palestinians. It was all Biden (Israel run by Biden).
Way to be MAGA!
Get a clue.
Genocide Joe? Dumbest damn line. You deserve Trump.
Why not engage on good faith? I wanted Biden to win...
Also insidious is they way they weaponize their low expectations to have everything blamed on the opposing party.
Does anyone still have faith in the dollar? Then stop giving it to Starlink. The internet isn't worth this price.
When Dems make the smallest attempt at it, it's called:
OBAMA WANTS TO BE A KING!!!
Unless you're conservative which doesn't require any responsibility at all. In fact, you're encouraged to lie and misinform.
Elections have consequences.
We lost.
The House
The Senate
The Presidency
Even members of our own party turned against us (AZ, WV), mostly because their constituents did.
That's why the citizens of the world's richest nation can't keep or have nice things.
All is forgiven again and then it's allowed to Fester so it can pop up every 10 or 20 years with some
They've been swallowing hard on change and just vomited it up in 2 weeks.
🫴🏾 🪐 #QTNews
#QTN #QTNA #QTNR
Yet our reps are 'unpatriotic' if they don't sign the blank checks for the DoD.
Voters must fund their opponents with a national organization #target18 to stop the illegal behavior
Morons.
Trump and his crew being fascists doesn’t make the leaders of the only alternative political party intelligent strategists. Did they or did they not just lose a winnable election and in doing so roll out the red carpet for fascists?
Because the corporatists’ puppets are incompetent and the oligarchs own the main instruments of mass influence (and understand how to wield them effectively).
Let's not get over our skiis
2/3rds of the country is not hurt by that image
2/3rds of the country hates your party
How is that possible?
Put another way, Democrats are perhaps more conservative—in the true sense—than MAGA.
The way I would put it is that revolutionary reactionism doesn't require any votes at all, contra progressive-minded conservatism.
Stop.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/
fify
Consensus on something lasting and positive and only minutes, hours or days to tear it down.
Also, Biden negotiated a deal with Manchin "you agree to this bill and I'll support yours" but convinced the holdouts in the progressive caucus to support Manchin's bill on blind trust.
... and the gun control bill that the dems passed was largely a rehash of existing legislation, so it didn't really accomplish much.
STAYED HOME ANYWAY.
Democrats should recognize that if they keep offering voters nothing, then it's only inevitable that voters won't support them.
Voters should recognize that as worthless as the DNC are, they're still better than letting evil incarnate back into power.
An unelected man and his tech bros have overtaken the US Treasury and now have control of all of our money and data. Where is the FBI and why have they not arrested them already?
Its as if checks and balances isn't real
our elected leaders are no different from the average dumbshit american in this case, except further insulated from reality by wealth and age
We’re seeing what that means in real time.
Quit believing a fraudulent election
The fact the dems haven't said a word about THAT is the most vomit inducing part.
Then just HANDED us over to the fascists with a goddamn SMILE.
He stole her LANDSLIDE win and everyone let him.
Are the Dems really powerless or?
The progressive growth in seats is dwarfed comparted to how fast the Tea Party took over but then again there was a lot of money behind those candidates.
Preserving the good is commendable.
Becoming medieval, superstitious and backward, not so much.
A. owns both chambers and
B. Is willingly giving up their own power for the executive
Then yes that's accurate it seems.
@aoc.bsky.social
@repjasmine.bsky.social
Please keep telling your dem colleagues that most of us think they're failing us. I know YOU see what the GOP is doing is a campaign of confusion so people don't know HOW to fight against it. The old dogs don't. Teach them.
Dems are more concerned about preserving norms than democracy.
Are they making repubs own the coming nightmare, or are they signing up for bipartisan failure?
One man derailed Congress. It's possible to provide resistance. Dems just won't.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tommy-tuberville-military-holds-released-senate/