• star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I think I get the appeal of Trump to chuds. Can you imagine Trump just passively doing nothing while one or two senators blocked his agenda? I mean, McCain sorta did that and Trump kept on mocking him after he was dead.

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, McCain is basically Persona Non Grata in the GOP. Anyone who talks positively about him is descended up by his rabid fanbase.

      Of course this meant that insufferable libs decided to welcome his rotting corpse into their big tent.

      Even that useless twat Keir Starmer knows that you cannot just beat an enemy, you must destroy them.

      Politics isn't a game. You don't just beat the opposition then go home; it's war. You utterly vanquish your opponent. You have to do politics so much better than them that they literally can not wield power ever again. There's a reason there's no viable working class party in the US because any hint has been annihilated for decades.

      I honestly wonder if the GOP hasn't already won. They got their Supreme Judge monarchy for potentially decades, and the filibuster means that Dems have to get a win that they haven't had since 2008. It's that dire.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Can you imagine Trump just passively doing nothing while one or two senators blocked his agenda?

      That's exactly what happened to a bunch of his non-neocon agenda items.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/25/three-years-later-evaluating-laws-trump-said-hed-pass-his-first-days/

      Trump was doing Infrastructure Week four years before Biden picked up the torch. He had an education reform bill that failed. He had a health care bill that failed. He had an immigration bill that failed. He had a crime bill that failed. The overwhelming majority of Trump's policies were enacted by way of executive order and largely endure because Biden hasn't rolled them back.

      I mean, McCain sorta did that and Trump kept on mocking him after he was dead.

      Trump's History Tour is flopping, with weak turnout in both Orlando and Dallas. When he was getting round-the-clock full-team Twitter-centric coverage, his swag would echo and boost his appeal. Now he's Page 6 material on a good day.

      You can't build a lasting political legacy on Epic Owns. He's going to fall down the memory hole, and we'll be back to hagiographies of Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge by November.