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Did those politicians say "vote blue no matter who" or was that people online in an effort to avoid gestures broadly?
Genuine question, they've always been massive disappointments who would benefit from that.
I specifically said "vote blue no matter who", because while yes, there are Establishment Democrats that exist, Extermination Republicans are quite objectively fucking worse.
Because if Fascist 47 wasn't in office, we could at least try to get shit done, instead of putting out 17+ daily fires.
So what were we doing for the last 50 years?
Fascist 47 hasn't been the president that long, and anyone with a brain knew he would tear this country down.
How was he able to do that? How does he have so much more power than democratic presidents? Genuine question bc all my brain says is that the dem potus' don't want change. 45/47 was able to really rock the boat the wrong way, why couldn't 46 make this much change in the other direction? 44?...
Democratic voters usually punish politicians that violate laws and rule of law (see: Mayo Adams of NYC popularity dropping after his indictment), while republican voters don't care about criminal activities, not even after 34 convictions with strong evidence.
Three things.
Trump is doing a lot of things that are technically within his powers as long as there is an emergency. Trump is declaring everything an emergency.
A lot of what Trump is doing is trying to tear down parts if the executive branch. The only real recourse to that is an active Congress, but the House and Senate are governed by his party and can choose not to act while the President tears down everything.
A lot of what Trump is trying to do is unconstitutional, but he's got a neutered Supreme Court and would probably quote President Jackson if the Court consistently ruled against Trump.
Dems and the Dem base run on the idea of an actual government with laws and standards. Dems sometimes violate those laws, but with plausible deniability in the vein of lawyers.
The GOP and the GOP base runs on the idea that hurting people is the highest good, and that laws are just a means to an end. They used to have more of the "lawyerly plausible deniability" strain about them, but Trump and his ghoulish following have dispensed with that, as they're convinced that laws are a secret liberal plot to stop America from becoming a White Man's Country once again.
Basically, the GOP doesn't give a fuck about all the rules the Dems follow, and the GOP base won't electorally punish them for it, because the GOP base is made of fascists.
One side is trying to govern, the other side is trying to win...
Because half the shit he's doing is illegal and 46 would not break the law so fragrantly and repeatedly, and when shot down he listened to the courts.
Republicans have control of every branch.