This is 100% the problem. Remember when Biden said that once Trump was out of office, the GOP would become more reasonable because, “the fever will break?” Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we need a, “a strong Republican Party?” They’re saying that Trump is an existential threat to democracy, but they’re not acting like they believe it.
They don’t offer any solutions other than, “vote harder.” Can’t reach the 60 vote threshold to get legislation through the senate? Well, eliminating the filibuster is too extreme, you’ll just have to vote harder. The Supreme Court is remaking the country into a fascistic theocracy? Well, stacking the court would go against tradition, you’ll just have to vote harder.
Even now, after the Supreme Court has granted the President unprecedented powers, Biden is more concerned with preserving norms. As he said:
I know I will respect the limits of the presidential power, as I have for three and a half years. But any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law.
So this is the message: “I have been granted insane amount of power, but I won’t use it because that would be irresponsible. However, my opponent, a convicted felon who instigated an insurrection, will use that power to do awful things. Guess you’ll have to vote harder!”
Republicans aren’t decent people with differing beliefs, our system of checks and balances is falling apart, and a rousing speech is not going to change anyone’s mind. The Democrats need to do whatever it takes to win, even if it means dumping Biden, and wield what power they have now, before they lose it forever.
Well, eliminating the filibuster is too extreme, you’ll just have to vote harder.
The Ds didn’t just decide not to kill the filibuster because it was too extreme, the goddamn billionaires BOUGHT Manchin and Sinema which killed that effort in the cradle. It’s already bad enough, you don’t need bend the truth.
Bending the truth is pretending that Biden didn’t insist that the filibuster was important and refused to call for it to be abolished for a full 2 years into his presidency. He spent the first two years convincing himself he was a brilliant negotiator who was going to break through partisan gridlock, and when he finally realized he couldn’t get voting rights through (because of course Republicans don’t want voting rights) he finally called for it to be abolished…sort of, because he still wanted the verbal filibuster to be an option. Probably because he watched too much West Wing and thought it would make a cool Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-like scene.
This is 100% the problem. Remember when Biden said that once Trump was out of office, the GOP would become more reasonable because, “the fever will break?” Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we need a, “a strong Republican Party?” They’re saying that Trump is an existential threat to democracy, but they’re not acting like they believe it.
They don’t offer any solutions other than, “vote harder.” Can’t reach the 60 vote threshold to get legislation through the senate? Well, eliminating the filibuster is too extreme, you’ll just have to vote harder. The Supreme Court is remaking the country into a fascistic theocracy? Well, stacking the court would go against tradition, you’ll just have to vote harder.
Even now, after the Supreme Court has granted the President unprecedented powers, Biden is more concerned with preserving norms. As he said:
So this is the message: “I have been granted insane amount of power, but I won’t use it because that would be irresponsible. However, my opponent, a convicted felon who instigated an insurrection, will use that power to do awful things. Guess you’ll have to vote harder!”
Republicans aren’t decent people with differing beliefs, our system of checks and balances is falling apart, and a rousing speech is not going to change anyone’s mind. The Democrats need to do whatever it takes to win, even if it means dumping Biden, and wield what power they have now, before they lose it forever.
The Ds didn’t just decide not to kill the filibuster because it was too extreme, the goddamn billionaires BOUGHT Manchin and Sinema which killed that effort in the cradle. It’s already bad enough, you don’t need bend the truth.
Bending the truth is pretending that Biden didn’t insist that the filibuster was important and refused to call for it to be abolished for a full 2 years into his presidency. He spent the first two years convincing himself he was a brilliant negotiator who was going to break through partisan gridlock, and when he finally realized he couldn’t get voting rights through (because of course Republicans don’t want voting rights) he finally called for it to be abolished…sort of, because he still wanted the verbal filibuster to be an option. Probably because he watched too much West Wing and thought it would make a cool Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-like scene.
Even if a rousing speech would change things, they don’t have anyone capable of giving one.
“Listen Jack, the thing about America is… what you gotta understand, is when the British, with the tyranny, I mean, c’mon…you can’t just fascism.”