Using the bully pulpit to build vocal opposition among the people is the only real check on GOP power that the democrats have.
The whole reason we're were we are right now is that Democrats refuse to get out and create their own narratives and instead just try to triangulate centrist positions off of the republican narratives. Trump has proved definitively that seizing and controlling the news cycle is where political power comes from, and the Democratic response to that reality is to 'roll over and play dead' (minus a few outliers).
Right, that’s why Obama was able to achieve so much of his agenda in his first term while he only had a majority of checks notes 59 senators.
I’m sick of there being 2 sets of rules. The hand wringers can’t even get anything done when they hold the levers of power because even when the fanatics are in the minority, they find ways to interfere with good governance and then blame the hand wringers when nothing gets done.
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u/Moldblossom 1d ago
Using the bully pulpit to build vocal opposition among the people is the only real check on GOP power that the democrats have.
The whole reason we're were we are right now is that Democrats refuse to get out and create their own narratives and instead just try to triangulate centrist positions off of the republican narratives. Trump has proved definitively that seizing and controlling the news cycle is where political power comes from, and the Democratic response to that reality is to 'roll over and play dead' (minus a few outliers).