• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    When was the last time -- if ever -- that they've had a meaningful opportunity to do so?

    The only term the squad has had in Congress involved a ~35 seat Democratic majority. If your caucus is 4 votes, you can't do a damn thing in that environment unless 30+ Democrats are already defecting. How often does that actually happen? My guess is not often at all.

    Now if you have 8 members of your caucus and Democrats have only a slim majority, you could conceivably extract some concessions.

    • TankieDukakis [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Well they don't speak out against her. She's going to be reinstated as speaker with no opposition.

      I think Rho Kanna is the only one to actually push back recently.