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Analyst says Trump officials may flee if Democrats win midterms: 'Would not be surprising'
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I'm pretty doubtful, a month or two ago there was a poll saying faith in the DNC was at an all time low. People aren't just going to wake up en mass because things are bad: this whole admin is just a replay of 2016-2020 but with a little extra shark jumping, and they STILL reelected Trump's ass and put GOP in a 53 senate majority.
Then, even if a blue wave sweeps the midterms? So what? Only 20 GOP senators are up for reelection, the DNC currently have 45 seats and 2 Independents, they can't remove trump without replacing every single GOP an that is beyond improbable.
Remember even in his first term the GOP lost the midterms.
His first term was bad, but not nearly as bad. We didn't have military occupation of our own cities. We didn't have masked men abducting people off the streets into unmarked vans. We didn't have a trade war with practically every other country. We didn't have massive inflation after a prior year of massive inflation. We didn't have suspension of food security. We didn't have farmers being undermined by all this while a huge bailout is done to a foreign country. We weren't mobilizing our military for an apparent invasion.
So the Democrats might have a chance. Removal from office may not be on the table, but at least some check on executive power might be exercised. We may be stuck with a PJ2025 executive branch for at least the next couple of years after that, but at least maybe there can be some mitigation. It's at least worth a try.
Depressingly I wouldn't characterize the last decade of elections as being as much a Republican or Democratic loss as much as pretty much every single election being a loss for whomever the perceived incumbent of the time.
Notably, what you have said is the democrats are so bad that it literally takes a 100% undeniable fascist takeover to let the neoliberals rule. We gotta tear it down, man. Holy fuck. Where's option 3? Did McCarthy truly kill it?
I’m in Maine and the democrats picked the worst challenger they could find to upset Susan Collins. Once again they have failed to cultivate a decent group of candidates to win over an important senate seat. They’re going to throw in someone loyal to the party that they can control, and it will cost them an election.
We only need to control house or senate to start reining him in hard. By 2028 the economy will be in ruins and he will be ineligible to run no matter what he says or more likely dead due to his own health problems.
There is every reason to believe we can take house senate and presidency in 2028.
Even with house and senate, he has the SCOTUS behind him and a military at his fingertips.
Most congress can do is starve his branch for funding and even then only with 60 senators.
Why would you think it takes 60 senators to starve him? You need 50% of the house plus 1 or 51 senators
It takes 60 to pass a budget resolution.
It takes 41 to keep a budget from passing (government shutdown).
Anyone who can't get 7 democrats to agree with a budget obviously is fucking up badly. Maybe by giving huge tax breaks to scummy billionaires and taking away affordable medical care
TBF the last time 7 dems agreed to continue we got John Oliver to spend an entire episode roasting Chuck Schumer about his imaginary friends.
I hope I never do anything so horrible to warrant that treatment, I might never recover.