but Democrats couldn’t solve it during Biden’s term, they haven’t had the power to actually get shit done…
People will lose their fucking minds at the idea of a second Trump Presidency, because they fundamentally understand the powers of the executive branch are vast and nearly impossible to oppose. Many still remember the “Unitary Executive” Bush Era. More remember the police brutality and financial shenanigans unleashed under Trump.
But as soon as a Democrat gets into office, it seems like they forget all about how these powers exist. Hell - how these powers were granted by Democrats themselves under those Republican administrations. The Patriot Act, the FISA reauthorizations, the broad powers afforded to the FBI, the NSA, and the CIA to pursue enemies of the state, the ability to nationalize whole sectors of the economy with a swipe of the pen, the ability to prosecute through the dozens of federal attorney offices, the ability to set all sorts of regulatory standards on everything from Education to Health Care to Environmental Protection, the ability to spend money already allocated to these agencies and to hire and fire millions of federal employees…
The GOP is a fucking wall on abortion and an ammendment is basically impossible
Any hospital or clinic that accepts federal money for Medicare and Medicaid is subject to a litany of regulations via HHS. Biden’s secretaries can write up an absolute briar patch of rules and regulations that limit how these clinics report information to the state and lay down a host of liabilities for women in their care who suffer while pregnant.
If he really wants to go whole hog, he can send the national guard down to every Planned Parenthood in America and proclaim them open for business under the aegis of federal law. In the same way Eisenhower enforced de-segregation, Biden can enforce the right to an abortion.
These are the same tools that prior Republican administrations have used to restrict access to abortion. They’re comparable to techniques Republican state governors and legislators have used to limit legal access to private abortion clinics. They’re heavy handed, authoritarian, and they’re certainly going to create a slew of eye-popping headlines in the national media.
But that’s why Biden (and now Harris) won’t pull the trigger. Doing things means putting your political future on the line. Just saying “Maybe try voting harder next time” moves the onus to the people getting trampled by their state and local governments.