If Dems take the House and maybe the Senate, they will face a tough choice: do they make things better financially for voters and risk improving Republicans’ image or let the pain grow so the next president is sure to be a Democrat? Of course, Trump will veto anything they produce, especially if they name it for Biden or Obama, so the chance of things improving will be close to zero. Then the Bezos Post will blame Dems!
Heighten the contradictions? Not this Democratic party. They will fight over unrolling the damage vs holding Trump to account. There's no clear message yet over what priorities a Democratic Congress would have, which is its own kind of message. No doubt fixing the economy will loom large once consultants have their say, regardless of what is possible. All I want for Christmas is an announcement of a committee to collect evidence for prosecution of members of this administration. Fat chance, but dreaming is free.
And the Republicans have carefully laid a trap for any attempts at prosecution: 'Weaponization'.
It is literally sickening (as in it makes me want to puke) what Trump is doing to the rule of law in this country, with the enthusiastic support of the worst Supreme Court in our nation's history.
Never mind the '1776' sludh fund; that's merely robbery. The "The IRS agrees to never audit me or my family, or associates forever and ever" is such a toweringly corrupt action, that it overshadows everything else Trump has done.
THIS is what happens when failed coup attempt plotters are NOT met with a swift appointment at a bullet-pocked wall, attended by a firing squad.
(and what should have been done back in 1865, as well)
Looking forward to reading what comes next. I think its pretty clear both Clinton and Obama ran and governed with an eye on those imaginary centrist voters. I imagine if you could inject truth serum into Plouffe or god forbid Carville they'd say 1) voters don't care about "issues" as they are commonly understood in the media, and 2) the razor-thin margins of victory are in those centrist voters, so they must be wooed, even at the expense of more committed base voters who do care about some issues.
This is almost the exact opposite of Republican strategy, to hype their most committed base voters' issues and rely on inertia to carry their own "centrist" voters along. Trump has raised this to an article of Faith, where he completely ignores the centrist voters and relies on his bond with his base. Add Republican system gaming and the Presidency has been a 50/50 draw, with centrist Democrats and radical Republicans winning. Biden became a radical by accident, so I think he counts as a centrist despite trying to make some radical changes.
If Dems take the House and maybe the Senate, they will face a tough choice: do they make things better financially for voters and risk improving Republicans’ image or let the pain grow so the next president is sure to be a Democrat? Of course, Trump will veto anything they produce, especially if they name it for Biden or Obama, so the chance of things improving will be close to zero. Then the Bezos Post will blame Dems!
Heighten the contradictions? Not this Democratic party. They will fight over unrolling the damage vs holding Trump to account. There's no clear message yet over what priorities a Democratic Congress would have, which is its own kind of message. No doubt fixing the economy will loom large once consultants have their say, regardless of what is possible. All I want for Christmas is an announcement of a committee to collect evidence for prosecution of members of this administration. Fat chance, but dreaming is free.
Plans for investigations are doing fine https://www.ms.now/news/democrats-preparing-trump-investigations-retake-house Josh Marshall says we should be making demands of our members and senators, especially for SCOTUS reform and ending the filibuster.
And the Republicans have carefully laid a trap for any attempts at prosecution: 'Weaponization'.
It is literally sickening (as in it makes me want to puke) what Trump is doing to the rule of law in this country, with the enthusiastic support of the worst Supreme Court in our nation's history.
Never mind the '1776' sludh fund; that's merely robbery. The "The IRS agrees to never audit me or my family, or associates forever and ever" is such a toweringly corrupt action, that it overshadows everything else Trump has done.
THIS is what happens when failed coup attempt plotters are NOT met with a swift appointment at a bullet-pocked wall, attended by a firing squad.
(and what should have been done back in 1865, as well)
Murc's Law is an ironclad rule of the Oligarch press.
Looking forward to reading what comes next. I think its pretty clear both Clinton and Obama ran and governed with an eye on those imaginary centrist voters. I imagine if you could inject truth serum into Plouffe or god forbid Carville they'd say 1) voters don't care about "issues" as they are commonly understood in the media, and 2) the razor-thin margins of victory are in those centrist voters, so they must be wooed, even at the expense of more committed base voters who do care about some issues.
This is almost the exact opposite of Republican strategy, to hype their most committed base voters' issues and rely on inertia to carry their own "centrist" voters along. Trump has raised this to an article of Faith, where he completely ignores the centrist voters and relies on his bond with his base. Add Republican system gaming and the Presidency has been a 50/50 draw, with centrist Democrats and radical Republicans winning. Biden became a radical by accident, so I think he counts as a centrist despite trying to make some radical changes.