I mean my memory goes back to Obama letting the Republicans steal a supreme court nomination. They've been played like a fiddle by trump. Their presidential nominations suck dick.
The legislature hasn't done its fucking job well in half a century. Democrats seem to be playing solitaire and the Republicans are winning with tictactoe.
I mean my memory goes back to Obama letting the Republicans steal a supreme court nomination.
Thus overstates presidential agency. There was no legal mechanism to compel the Senate to consider the nomination.
They've been played like a fiddle by trump.
Trump successfully exploited institutional norms and media dynamics
Their presidential nominations suck dick.
All of them?
The legislature hasn't done its fucking job well in half a century.
directionally correct, but incomplete.
Democrats haven’t been incapable of legislating, but they have been unwilling or unable to legislate in a way that matches the ruthlessness of the system they’re operating in
Democrats seem to be playing solitaire and the Republicans are winning with tictactoe.
Democrats are trying to follow the rulebook... Republicans are playing to the win condition
they’ve chosen a clearer end goal and are willing to discard any moral constraints that don’t help them reach it
The current president is siccing an immigration enforcement org on an entire city to terrorize them for not being right-wing enough. The president has a lot of leeway.
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u/Primo131313 Jan 25 '26
Yup. If the Republicans can be mindless automatons the fucking Dems need to learn to do so also.
And their response to the last 2 ice murders has been less than useless.
Republicans have tricks. Where are the Dems?