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      Congress? You mean the two houses which are now firmly in control by Republicans. There there, and the Republican majority couldn’t give a fuck what Trump does, as long as it destroys American democratic institutions. They weren’t coy about this since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Congress, this congress, the one which was just installed, and elected this past November, is going to sit back, and watch it all burn. Ask about The Supreme Court next.

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        People get butthurt when you blame Democrats around here instead of the people doing it, but Democrats are just watching this shit go down.

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          Democrats have no majority, or control of any of the three [Legislative (Congress), Judicial (DOJ and Supreme Court), or Executive (Presidency)] branches of US Government, what would you have Democrats do, you know, without the Constitutional power to do it?

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          Watching silently or outright supporting it. Harris swung to the right because that’s what leadership Dems saw Republicans doing and it worked for them. Any critisism of the tactic, here there everywhere, was silenced. The result was one of the most spectacular political losses of all time, but also…

          That fake ass Democrats who were only ever using the party as cover now has been given space to step right.