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If Democrsts take the House in 2026, the lives of these people will become living hell. And if a Dem takes the presidency in 2028 while these precedents stand, I really hope they use them to gut funding to moronic right-wing priorities.



What fantasy world do you live in where you expect the 2026 elections to be both fair and a resounding win for the democrats?


Voters have given republicans a crazy double standard since reconstruction.

Believing that any of this will result in a precedent for any future democrats means you haven't been paying attention.

Only democrats have to follow the rules. Republicans voters support them even through blatantly unconstitutional acts like "take the guns first, due process second" and forcing schools to display christian symbols. Republican voters do not give a shit that Trump's family has taken billions of American dollars. Trump voters don't even care that they paid Steve Bannon millions to build a wall he never intended to build, and still voted for a Trump admin with Steve Bannon!

These people believe anything is acceptable to topple the democrats because the democrats forced desegregation onto the southern states.


> Believing that any of this will result in a precedent for any future democrats means you haven't been paying attention

I’m arguing a Democrats who fights with the tools they’ve been given will be popular. Like, want to cancel student loans? Fuck process. Just declare them cancelled and shred the loan records before anyone can get to court.

This is a stupid endgame. But the system doesn’t work if one side constrains itself by rules the other doesn’t follow, because that means only one side will ever affect policy.




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