Democrats only have the power that you give them. When Trump lost an election, his followers ransacked the Capital. When Pelosi opposed Republicans, her husband got his face smashed in.
What exactly do you expect AOC to do?
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I mean, they DID tell you dis was gunn happen. Twice.
Spent four years drilling "but her emails" into your thick skulls and then you did it again because egg prizes or Gaza or Cheney or whatever.
Takes balls to sit out the rise of fascism, but let's be honest, it's not undeserved.
"Deserved" is a bit loaded. Americans are exceptionally stupid and ill-informed, but that applies to our elected leaders, as well.
Does someone who is easily manipulated deserve to be manipulated? If so, isn't that precisely the form of myopic conservativism that has overrun the right wing? Government for the people, by the people, is intended to protect all the people and enshrine our rights. Protecting victims from predators ought to be a primary function of law, and if you don't believe that, then yeah you deserve the leadership we got.
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It turns out that when you take all of the power to do anything away from someone, they can't do anything 🤷♂️ who could have possibly seen this coming?
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The american voters gave republicans the presidency, the senate and the house.
They also got control of the SCOTUS so the democrats don't have many options right now.
Hopefully the people smarten up for the 2026 midterms and actually vote.
Not only that, but Trump spent the last 8 years purging the republican party of disloyalist. The first term Trump met resistance by his own party. This time anyone left who would resist him is gone and anyone who wants to will just be removed shortly after.
Exactly. What specifically are the democrats to do at this point?
More emails asking for donations? Have we tried this? Man I’m stumped
- delay as much as possible in the Senate: https://indivisible.org/resource/explainer-how-senate-democrats-can-delay-defy-trumps-agenda-procedural-hardball
- use local government to resist the federal government: https://indivisible.org/resource/guide#chapter3
Centrists will ignore this and keep acting powerless.
Malingerers.
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What are the democrats actually doing to help?
I hope we don't start getting the same sort of lists that we got about Biden's accomplishments, where they counted Obama's accomplishments, had multiple duplicate entries, counted proposals as accomplishments, and considered a fresh coat of paint on air force one as an accomplishment.
Congress is in charge of the money. I think they need Johnson acting to do anything about Elon though.
Someone more up on the mechanics should clarify.
the republicans are in complete control of every branch of government and there is very little democrats can do other than talk really loud
Isn't that the only thing they do
So like you didnt vote for people and are mad those people are not in positions to do anything? Like “where are the democrats?” Short answer: not elected.
I’m not sure why this is directed solely towards democrats. They’re not the only ones affected by the change towards dictatorship.
-the better question is:
What is ANYONE doing to help?
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On a federal level, there really isn't much they can do that I'm aware of. It would have been nice to see them blanket oppose Trump's cabinet picks but that would only be symbolic since they don't have the numbers. They can't get any laws passed, and even if they could, Trump has no qualms about disregarding the law, which the Supreme Court says is fine.
If they wanted to go outside the law I guess they could try to organize some kind of coup, but failure at any stage would not only be career suicide but possibly actual suicide given that treason is punishable by death, and this administration would be gleeful to carry out that sentence against Dems. And if it did succeed, that still wouldn't do anything about the oligarchy propping up Trump, they'd just have another puppet (Vance) to fall back on.
It would have been nice to see them blanket oppose Trump's cabinet picks but that would only be symbolic
And now Democrats are even shying away from ineffective symbolic gestures that accomplish nothing.
There is little the democrats could ever have done to prevent fascism without losing their funding. This is just becoming much more clear now that we are at the advent of fascism.
Thats not true they could have given up the elites to form a more grassroots par-hahahha im sorry I fucking can't
And funding is always more important than preventing fascism.
The best thing that Democrats can do is come up with a popular governing vision and then storm back in the 2026 midterms.
Personally I would think this would have to compromise on immigration and the worst culture war excesses of the left, while emphasizing support for the working class and most importantly good governance.
They clearly haven't capitulated rightward enough yet. You'll gain nothing by abandoning solidarity with even more voters, but at least you'll get the sheer joy of throwing vulnerable minorities under the bus.
class > race > "gender"
Really? Gender in quotes? Stop trying to attach your bigotry to progressivism.
Yes gender in quotes since there at least 7 different definitions floating around, some in the dictionary for decades, some floated on Tumblr circa 2012.
Yes gender in quotes since
Since bigotry.