I agree with this, but I would still have voted yes in his shoes. https://twitter.com/mattklewis/status/1106273826147614723 …
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3. Thus, even when Democrats see a Republican doing damage to the structure of our system, they want only to restrict Republican power; they never want to actually prevent future Democrats from doing the same thing bc they don't see the Constitutional problem.
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4. So Republicans are stuck: they have no options for bipartisan action that outlasts Trump's term. Democrats want to build a record that this is an abuse of power, but they don't want to actually limit the power to rule out future abuses.
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5. This goes well beyond this issue, or this particular power. It's chronic in questions over the proper role & functions of the branches of the federal government. The two parties simply don't even agree anymore on what our system of government *is*.
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6. Should Congress get to decide what the federal government spends money on? Should executive agencies make law? Should presidents control federal law enforcement and intelligence? If we don't even agree on these fundamental rules, of course we can't defend them together.
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what i don't quite get is - by bringing up "constitutional conservative" is he saying the act is unconstitutional? If so then what the president did is not "legal"
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dis guy, talking as though it is 1979 and not 2019... evidence be damned... and all the worse tendencies of the 1979 Dem party, those actors have mostly moved to the republican party... it really is remarkable to see this blather.
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