• jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    There’s an alternate timeline where he wins and can’t get anything through because there aren’t enough progressive Dems in the senate.

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      2 months ago

      Or where upon it seems he’ll be blocked, he goes individually to each of the blocking members states or districts, and campaigns his ideas directly to those who will be most affected, both upsetting precedent and dra international attention to individuals blocking the legislation.

      You act like there wasn’t a plan. I assure you , there was a plan.

    • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      In that case, Bernie’s executive orders would have blotted out the sun. How do courts strike down student loans being forgiven under a new legal theory every month?

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      It doesn’t take too many traitors to the party to ruin any attempts at passing progressive legislation sadly. Even if it’s not the usual suspects like Sinema or Manchin someone will always step up, and if they don’t get voted back into office later then they’ll just cash in those connections with a lobbying firm.

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      2 months ago

      And yet it’s a better timeline than what happened when Clinton was too bad at being a politician to beat Trump.

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      2 months ago

      If i remember right, he said if he won he would go to places like WV and hold rallies demanding senators help his agenda or he’d back their primary challengers. That’s the kind of guts I’d like to have seen