We’re all exhausted, but in the 24 hours since the election was called, corporate interests and their allies have already started their war on progressives. There is no rest for the weary.
We're getting 4 years of gridlock minimum so I'm guessing this is over the possibility that the margins in the House are now slim enough for the squad to block the oncoming austerity measures. They wouldn't be able to stop it entirely, but it would force the democrats to cross the aisle and pass those bills with republican votes, while having to spin the bill against the most popular members of their own party. Mitch also has a lot of incentive to either block or demand concessions since red states already cut social services so badly that South Carolina is actually coming out of Covid with a budget surplus.
Nobody really knows how safe the safe seats actually are with that bullshit polling and heads are certainly going to roll in the midterms. So at that point the only option is to try and say it's the craaaazy lefties who killed the recovery and if we just got rid of them we could really get things done.
It's also a re-districting year and the GOP have control of that.
Dems have already tried to gerrymander AOC out of her district. They'll turn a blind eye to the Republicans doing it if it can result in them ousting progressives.
We're getting 4 years of gridlock minimum so I'm guessing this is over the possibility that the margins in the House are now slim enough for the squad to block the oncoming austerity measures. They wouldn't be able to stop it entirely, but it would force the democrats to cross the aisle and pass those bills with republican votes, while having to spin the bill against the most popular members of their own party. Mitch also has a lot of incentive to either block or demand concessions since red states already cut social services so badly that South Carolina is actually coming out of Covid with a budget surplus.
Nobody really knows how safe the safe seats actually are with that bullshit polling and heads are certainly going to roll in the midterms. So at that point the only option is to try and say it's the craaaazy lefties who killed the recovery and if we just got rid of them we could really get things done.
It's also a re-districting year and the GOP have control of that.
Dems have already tried to gerrymander AOC out of her district. They'll turn a blind eye to the Republicans doing it if it can result in them ousting progressives.