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2. 2 years later, Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act, makes "regime change" official policy of the US. House: 360-38. Senate? Unanimous!
1. In 1996, 20 years ago, Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act. You probably forget it passed the house 342-67! Senate? 85-14!
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3. Backing '94, with even starker majorities, we got the Violent Crime Act, a "response" to the peaking crime wave in the 90s.
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4. For gay people, trans people, POC, etc. the reactionary politics of the Democratic 90s were really bad.
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5. From a foreign policy perspective, we got the groundwork for Iraq II, the American bombing of an aspirin factory, the first WTC bombing.
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6. We need to temper our reaction to Trump with a true perspective on where we've been before. That means getting rid of his precedents.
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7. Trump is a 90s Democrat who adopted a vague protectionist populism as a sop to the poor bastards harmed by US industrial non-policy.
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8. Hell, on many social issues, he is to the *left* of mid-90s Clinton. Arguably abortion is the exception, but even there, record's mixed.
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9. None of this is to excuse Trump. I despise the creep. But we have *got to stop pretending* we've never been here before.
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@jakebackpack I did not! -
@jakebackpack@imbroglioh IIRC, every Jewish Democrat in the Senate voted against it. -
@jakebackpack But that signing was annulled when Hillary pandered for the LGBTQ vote in 2016.
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