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The Dems should not try to stop unpopular MAGA policies

laughing dog said:
The US does not gave the capability of successively carrying out much of Trump’s deportation plans. Nor is he likely to get much of his agenda through Congress unscathed.

Where he can do real damage is with appointments, firings and administrative policy along with some tariff policy.

If he gets some of his way on deportations snd tariffs, goods and services will become more expensive - something people will notice.
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This is just one end of the constantly swinging pendulum of American politics going back decades if not longer.

We (or just over half of us) happily vote in politicians who sell us on sunshine and rainbows (while serving the wealthy) and when the situation they create becomes untenable and the people start to suffer, they turn on their temporary masters and vote in someone to fix things. The grifters regroup, and the next time tell us that everything is bad and we need more sunshine and rainbows. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Going backwards through recent history is instructive. Things were so bad in 2020 that the country happily threw Trump out of office in favor of the most milquetoast Democratic candidate since Walter Mondale. Things were so bad in 2008 that the electorate chose a black guy over a war hero because Bush Jr. had fucked things up so badly. Bush Sr. fucked things up badly enough that by '92 the American people were ready to elect a horn-dog horn player to fix things. Jimmy Carter was the honest man to take over after the corrupt Nixon administration, but was himself defeated by a sunshine and rainbows candidate.

I wouldn't be surprised if things are so bad by 2028 that it will swing back the other way. Yet the Democrats won't win because they put up a game-changing candidate, but because things are so bad that a potted plant could win against President Vance. Then the music will start again.

In the near term, I'm all in favor of "let it all burn." We don't make significant changes in this country until things get so bad that we have to.
 
ideologyhunter said:
W-w-whattt???????????? Didn't the Repubs instruct us over and over that the filibuster is a necessary device to insure that the minority party has a voice? I am shocked. Shocked.
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They've already removed the filibuster for SC judges. I'm starting to agree that Sotomayor should step down.
 
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