Democrats watch as their House hopes grow "deeply troubling"
Democrats watch as their House hopes grow "deeply troubling"
Democrats are looking on nervously as their last-ditch goal of recapturing the House in an otherwise brutal election shows signs of fizzling.
They seriously need to course correct their policy decisions. Capitulation to Israel and corporate interests, playing kingmaker with their presidential candidates, and pandering to conservatives are gutting their support.
Way too late for that. Trump and co are easily on track to gut every single ounce of functional democracy and ensure that nobody left of Joe Manchin is ever elected again.
They needed to course correct 8 years ago. They may never get another chance now.
Not being vindictive at all, but I hope this hurts, like a lot. If this is a repeat of his first term he'll grift, stumble over everything important, and have a by-and-large uneventful term (pandemic aside). That's enough for the uninformed masses to say, "Hey, this 'fascism' thing ain't so bad," and they did their hooks in even deeper.
I don't think he'll stumble over anything - if he gets a trifecta, he'll sign whatever the fuck is put in front of him, and this time he won't have establishment Republicans to keep him from completely going off the rails. Instead he'll have Elon in charge of budgeting, RFK Jr doing "medical" stuff, and Bannon pushing fucking insane shit.
The guard rails are down and we're flying off the cliff.
It's not a repeat. The GOP has had four years to plan and strategize. Trump and the wider GOP didn't expect to win in 2020. The GOP didn't know what to make of him. Now, they know how to cajole him, how to get him to do whatever, and they've had time to actually put down a map of what they want to do.
Trump may not know what he's doing, but considering he's likely going to let his Cabinet do most of the actual work like last time, I'm very, very worried. I'm even more worried if we wind up getting JD Vance instead after a year or so, because while Trump has at least one guiding star (money), JD Vance is utterly rudderless, willing to take direction from whoever is paying him at the moment.
I don't think he'll stumble over anything - if he gets a trifecta, he'll sign whatever the fuck is put in front of him, and this time he won't have establishment Republicans to keep him from completely going off the rails. Instead he'll have Elon in charge of budgeting, RFK Jr doing "medical" stuff, and Bannon pushing fucking insane shit.
The guard rails are down and we're flying off the cliff.
I don't think he'll stumble over anything - if he gets a trifecta, he'll sign whatever the fuck is put in front of him, and this time he won't have establishment Republicans to keep him from completely going off the rails. Instead he'll have Elon in charge of budgeting, RFK Jr doing "medical" stuff, and Bannon pushing fucking insane shit.
The guard rails are down and we're flying off the cliff.
