• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    TL;DR: the filibuster. The thing the Democrats say they can’t abolish because they need it to block the Republican agenda. Even though they just refused to use it to block a Republican agenda.

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    3 months ago

    It wasn’t. It was strictly performative. The majority of the Democrats are aligned with the Republicans and so a super-majority supports Trump. Why? Because they’re all bought and paid for by the same billionaires.