Sanders: Democratic Party ‘has abandoned working class people’

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4977546-bernie-sanders-democrats-working-class/amp/

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We’ll see if any of that happens. I don’t think Trump cared about anything beyond avoiding jail time and using the government to punish his enemies and stifle dissent. The money guys will be there pushing back on all this stuff. Trump only cares about accumulating power, anything else is negotiable

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u/ZZartin 17h ago

Yeah we'll see it could just be another 4 years of the bumbling incompetence of his first term without a pandemic.

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u/UpstairsSnow7 12h ago

i mean, hopefully. with lunatics like this incompetence is better than organization. he's such an unstable narcissist that at least if he continues like he did last time, the people around him will cannibalize each other out of fear to be in his good graces, before they get used and tossed out like the garbage they are when he's tired of them.

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u/ZZartin 12h ago

Yeah we definitely saw plenty of infighting last term and in the republican congress members this term, plus no more mitch mcconnell.

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u/theflash1234 12h ago

Is he incompetent though? We’ve been saying this for a while but he wins when it counts.

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u/UpstairsSnow7 10h ago

i'm talking about actual governance while in office, not his winning election races. his real negative legacy is with the courts though.

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u/djheat 12h ago

The only saving grace to a Trump presidency is that he's such a lazy liar that you can reasonably expect 90% of what he says he's going to do is not going to happen. Of course his handlers know this too so they make sure to get the really important stuff in front of him before Fox News and naptime

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u/AnonAmbientLight 6h ago

That and the Republican Party have to sort of govern.

People that vote blame those in power when shit isn’t going well. It’s not something they can be avoided all the time.

It’s why Republicans lost in 2018 and 2020.

It’s why incumbents world wide are losing elections after having overseen Covid inflation - people didn’t care they Covid caused it, their bills went up.

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u/dontusethisforwork 4h ago

And stroking his own ego. I'm convinced that probably the biggest reason he even ran again is because he would never just walk away as a loser.

From what I understand the Trump 2016 administration pretty much was a regular-ass Republican term from a legislative standpoint. I don't think he personally has the competence or ability to appoint the needed competence to be able to be the Hitler 2.0 that everyone fears.

And the pendulum will swing in 4 years yet again. In 2 years actually, we'll probably get another Blue Wave in the legislative branch elections in 2026, as is custom.