PhlubbaDubba , 4 months ago

Democrats have had a trifecta capable of passing any legislation for like 5 of the last 40 years IIRC, and for most of those it was the Bill Clinton Era Dems who think pulling back a bloody stump isn’t any reason to stop reaching across the aisle ever.

The past trifecta was the first time since Johnson where we had even a modicum of progressive ambition in a position to make some change, and out of it we got the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act, and the reason we didn’t get more is because of two senators who aren’t coming back anymore, and the archaic accidental rule they were defending with exactly zero actually good reason.

Like seriously, the white left will try to deride “just keep voting” as if 1) voting is some Herculean labor they should be patted on the back for instead of the bare minimum to be called an ally instead of an ally aesthetic chaser, and 2) voting isn’t something that has to be done regularly to keep momentum behind any gains made.