President Donald Trump called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be imprisoned Wednesday morning amid his administration’s deployment of National Guard members to Illinois’ largest city.“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers!” Trump wrote on his social media platform ...
  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Almost all mainstream media that isn’t intended for right wing audiences. Every person who has knocked on my door, sent me an email, or called my phone to talk to me about Democratic candidates for the last 25 years

    I mean, I wasn’t counting people whose job it is to promote the Democratic Party.

    80% of the people I have had political conversations with in the real world who aren’t Republicans.

    Weird, most of the non-Republicans I know think the Dems suck but they’re better than the Cons. At best they think the Dems can be pressured into some civil rights here and there. I can’t say I’ve encountered many fans of the Dems outside explicitly political events.

    The only way to prevent what we have now was to clamp down hard on Trump’s lawlessness and executive overreach when we had the chance

    It’s not like he wasn’t on trial for lots of the lawlessness, he’s just actually really good at dragging out trials. Mishandling that could’ve sparked civil war, it had to be ironclad. Clamping down beyond the proper channels wasn’t a better option.

    improve the lives of the average American significantly enough that they would not fall for Trump’s lies about the economy or immigrants or whatever else.

    They actually did get a surprising amount of decent stuff through, but no improvement is going to make people stop falling for lies about the economy and immigrants. That’s just how people are, I’m sorry.

    Further, giving Trump four years to strategize and consolidate power within the Republican party led to worse outcomes in 2025 than would have been possible in 2021.

    I doubt it, the Heritage Foundation had this shit drawn up decades ago. They didn’t need the extra years to plot, if anything it threw off their timing.

    They already consolidated power by 2021, the Republican party was MAGA . They already had their people in their stations, they would’ve been more effective if the cabinet didn’t have to transition out and back in.

    Oh and COVID definitely would’ve been way worse overall too. That could’ve been a much bigger disaster.

    So no, I don’t think Biden was worse than Trump would have been in 2020. It’s on us for not doing anything with those 4 years.