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Some great points - Democrats continue to show naive faith that they're dealing with an honest opposition and not an actual looming threat of fascism aligned with our adversaries and not at all committed to the rule of law nor the very concept of Democracy and the will of the voters.
On that i totally agree. It's not business as usual and they've endeavoured ( understandably yet dangerously ) to believe things will revert to normal.
But what's the option? Civil war? I'd like to think an electoral defeat would turn the tide and bring some people back from the cult…which seems to be happening a bit. Biden never had a mandate in Congress and never the Judiciary so I see it as despite massive obstructions he's broadly done a good job. I never expected nor could we have achieved much more under the current circumstances. I blame McConnell, SCOTUS and the insane House far more than Biden for that.
I’m angry at the republicans for being assholes, and angry at the dems for not calling them assholes, if that makes sense.
Democrats need to stop dicking around. They need to get aggressive. You don’t save yourself from going over the brink by letting yourself be closer to the brink- you fight back and get the fuck off the edge.
Similarly, you don’t move the country towards progress by turning conservative.
They’ve been needing to stop dithering about and start advancing progressive causes because that is how you stay out of fascism. If the GoP is fighting to stop universal health care, they’re not fighting to privatize Medicare.
If they’re fighting to stop universal free lunches and breakfasts at schools, they’re not fighting remove snap.
If they’re fighting to stop climate regulation, they’re not deregulating.
If they’re fighting against voter rights and fair elections; they’re not fighting to fuck over voters with more gerrymandering and stupidly racist laws.
If the dems start fighting aggressively, instead “what we can get”… then every victory moved the Overton window left; and a defeat maintains the status quo. As it stands now, every victory for the dems maintains the status quo and every defeat moves the country right.
Further, we all know trump incited an insurrection. We all know he stole classified documents. Any one else in the country would have been arrested the day after (or as soon as the Archived found out they were missing stuff.)
Most people would have been held in a CIA blacksite.
Instead it was two and a half years before they even bothered to try and get stuff back, and even then fucked up the search in a way that cannot possibly be unintentional.
just as long before they took investigating Trump for Jan 6 even remotely seriously, it was 3 years before he was indicted.
Justice delayed is justice denied- and guess who the DoJ’s boss is? Yeah, they’re kind of independent… but he can still give broad directions and pressure to move forward.
He can remove assholes who refuse to do their fucking jobs.
We’re in this Biden v. Trump rematch precisely because Biden et al fucked around, playing political games with national security.
I don’t agree with some details but the sentiment is right on. Adhering to norms unilaterally is not helping.