I blocked a lot of political keywords, so I am genuinely asking because I might be ill informed. What concrete actions have the Democrats taken to block, stop, or reverse Trumps illegal actions?
Again, I am genuinely asking.
Honestly if they aren’t jailing republicans at this point it isn’t enough. Iirc there is a few lawsuits and strongly worded letters that will of course accomplish nothing meaningful as usual
Earnest answer: they have made the argument that they lost the presidency and both houses of Congress, therefore, whatever happens is not on them. They are taking the stance that since they don’t have the legal power, they’re doing their part by raising awareness, going to committee meetings to verbally oppose trump’s regime, and voting against bills when they can. In the Senate, Dems have been almost united in voting against trump’s nominees (looking at you, Fetterman). But they (Dem leadership) have been very straightforward that they don’t have the power. Their strategy is that republicans will fail so hard that the rest of the country will be running back to democrats by the midterms. I’ll let you decide how effective they’ve been.
To their credit, it’s true that they have almost no legal power. The House votes by simple majority, so there’s next to nothing House Dems can do. In the Senate, Dem Senators can filibuster some bills. It’s super important to remember that a lot of bills, like budget bills or judicial nominations, cannot be filibustered. Add on top of that, republicans are disorganized as hell and have barely submitted any legislation for a vote that could be filibustered even if the Dems wanted to. So there’s really very little Dem Senators can do on the Senate floor.
So, the answer is, barely nothing because legally, they truly don’t have the power. That all said, they are basically sitting on their hands. There’s SO MUCH they could be doing. For instance, imagine the POWER and HISTORY that Dems could’ve made had they one-by-one stood up and walked out of trump’s state of the union address. Dems could stand on the Capitol step EVERY DAY to protest, demand media attention, and use their platform. They aren’t. They’re letting us burn because most of them are playing politics.
Good luck to them, you, me, and everybody else…
75 Democrats just voted to express gratitude towards ICE.
https://www.newsweek.com/75-democrats-house-antisemitism-resolution-ice-gratitude-2083177
They’re actually going to work and doing their job, not sitting on their hands. The reality is that most Dems are just part of this ongoing process and have no intention to resist it, even if they had power.
I would like an answer for this as well. We’ve seen exactly one filibuster, which wasn’t against any particular piece of legislation or appointee.
Democrats oppose progressives, not republicans.
That’s because Republicans aren’t as much of a threat to their office as progressives. Some Dems are sitting in basically lifetime seats and they wouldn’t want that disrupted. The Ds haven’t done anything significant yet at all. And it won’t come from Democrats. It’ll come from the people if it happens at all. And once something big happens by and from the people, that’s when the Ds will step in and take a side. Fucking cowards.
Progressives oppose progressives and liberals try to keep the world running.
Username accurate shitty post. I hope this is all a bit…
It’s not the responsibility of a political party to police the actions of an administration. If someone does something you believe to be illegal, you sue them. According to a LLM search, the administration has over 250 cases against them right now. The courts are the ones responsible for judging the actions of the administration and holding it accountable.
Trump was elected to do the things he’s doing. There’s no surprises here. Congress is stacked against the Democrats. There really isn’t anything they can legally do until they regain either the Senate or the House.
The concern should be the legal actions he’s taking; the ones the supreme court ultimately determine are fine. The few that pass that bar are going to be major hurdles to restoring normalcy.
What the Democrats should be doing is forming a unified party that listens to the concerns of the people and finding someone to voice this movement.
It really comes down to the people. We always have the choice of who to elect. We seem to be voting for people who are against our own personal interests because our electoral system is a farce. Politicians are lying so often and so blatantly now that, regardless of your affiliation, the truth is often clouded by bias and emotion, if not intentionally buried. About half of Americans now believe our elections are rigged even though the evidence indicates they’re highly secure.
I mean, if you’re here asking what can be done to fix this shit we’re in right now, the answer is to reform our elections, make them tax payer funded, embrace STAR or Ranked Choice Voting, and pass the bill that prevents elected leaders from holding stocks. Or, I don’t know how you do this but getting people to know the difference between factual unbiased news and fake news and preventing biased opinions from distorting their realities.
Are you lost?
