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Trump loyalists plan to name and shame ‘blacklist’ of federal workers
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We need to do more to stop this than just block trump from office for four years to stall.
We need Dems that will actually fight against it and can plan more than one election ahead of time.
Even when trump is dead and buried the people who came up with this plan and fund it are still going to be there, and will keep trying.
Moderates want us to only focus on current elections while Republican extremists plan decades ahead of time.
What is being done to fight them isn't enough.
Without a majority in both chambers it seems like we're fucked. Precedent means jack shit to the majority of the SCOTUS so we basically need to codify 50+ years of decisions. Even then we need to claw back some sanity at the state level.
Weird hiw Republicans can get what they want when they have just one chamber of Congress, but the Dems can't do anything even when they have 2/3 between Congress and the White House. The Democrats keep hiding behind "we cant do that because it won't pass" so things keep getting worse and worse for people, who blame the Democrats. If they started to actually campaign on things that will improve people's lives like Medicare for all, lowering rent/housing prices, fixing college tuition, and breaking up giant corporations.
Its not some weird secret conspiracy by the Democratic leadership. The GOP generally has a much easier job. They get what they want by preventing anything from getting done. It's much harder to create than destroy. Yes it's on Democrat officials to actually follow through on their platform when they have the ability, but we can't give them 51% in a system that requires 60% and be surprised when we don't get sweeping legislation passed.
That's before you factor in how different the demographic makeup of the parties being so different. The Democratic coalition includes far left, progressives, and moderates across the political spectrum with very different ideas. Some good, some bad. Some honest civil servants, some corporate sell outs. The GOP is made up of people who simply disagree about how public they want to make their goals known, they all have the same evil vision and they will all sell out their country.