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Did you happen to see what happened in the 2025 and 2026 elections?
What Democrats picking up a couple of vacated seats this early in his second term?
Nice, but it isn’t stopping anything is it? That’s no gauge on the midterms being fair either, just quietly.
Hey, I hope you’re right but it’s more hope I think. They need to act, now, as a unit.
No. The Democrats aren't going to do much themselves. The bigger point is the cultural statement being made, because nearly all of the districts that got flipped went to Donald by double digits in 2024, and that tells you that not only do people oppose what's happening, but that he's broken his electoral coalition. This is also why the very public gerrymandering campaign stopped, because they've pissed off so many of their own voters they can no longer be certain it serves their interests.
That would be where you're wrong. This is being stopped all over the place, and not just in Minneapolis. My city just passed a 5-year moratorium on zoning and permits for ICE. The problem here is that the gears of justice turn slowly, so it doesn't happen instantaneously (Look at the Garcia abduction for an example of that.), but Chicago and Minneapolis have done a great job of helping their neighbors in waves that aren't flashy.
Probably not, but when both red and blue districts have turned on Donald, it's much harder to win by cheating. You have to be able to identify where you can win, and clearly, they can't. Hell, they just lost a race in Texas where they outspent the Democrats 10-to-1. Voters are pissed nationwide, and that's not a matter of hope, but of empirical evidence.
Respectfully, I think there's too much good info and action of late to simply ignore.
He did that a while ago. None of that really matters though, because there’s now an iron grip on the judiciary and policing and probably on the military.
Unless they get another fair election, then it has licence, but things don’t look that good on that front.
They’re worried about physical backlash to that, not electoral. They’ll vote R anyway, but again, it’s going to be likely voting is pretty much redundant.
I hope you’re right and I’ll admit on the levels you’ve pointed out, the wheels are turning. Overall, it’s not making much difference though; the administration is still willingly carrying out its pogroms and disregarding the rule of law. So I don’t know if I’m wrong. We’ll see.
Certainly there’s a bit, but there’s also a lot of hope based on a couple of good things occurring like there was before the election. Those of us who called they’d allow Trump to run, then elect Trump, the institutions would collapse where all pretty well ridiculed for calling it.
One way or another the next election won’t be fair, if it’s held at all, and the Democrats won’t win the midterms. I hope I’m wrong, I truly do. It doesn’t matter what the swing on these ones tell you, the one that matters won’t be fair.
I see the same here in a big way, but I hope you’re right. I think too much is pinned on hope. I don’t think you’ll vote your way out of this, I’m sorry. The sooner that shutdown is undertaken the better. Hopefully next time they learn that voting is the easy way to stop it.