The kids today don't believe it but in 2018 one major argument the Democrats used was that if they won the House they would do oversight on Trump and check his excesses. Many voters believed them too and it helped the Dems win! Wild times.
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I’ll take no authoritarianism, actually.
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The subtext is sort of hand flailing "Fix it!!!"
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Yes it’s a shame the House Dems havent....asked the Barr run DOJ to enforce the subpoenas that members of the Trump Admin have ignored
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Isn't that more of a problem with oversight itself, having no actual teeth and being based on respecting and honoring norms, rather than what the opposition party does or doesn't do?
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This is a problem with the Constitutional framework that ensures Senators represent states and not populations, and that requires Senate action for accountability. You should hope Biden wins by a lot. Because then the election would be the deterrent for future authoritarians that
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the Constitution did not supply.
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That's right on except for the cocksureness about Trump's defeat. There's a lot of time till November. And Trump's supporters will all turn out.
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Sorry dude, but you're surrendering that the GOP-controlled Senate is at all NORMAL. It's actually an argument from a frame of white privilege you're too blinded to see. Checks work when operated by good faith actors, not craven opportunists and crackpots
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