“the president, when he does come, that he has something strong in his message that will resonate with some of these people who might have these crazy ideologies and hopefully change their opinion.”

Waaaait a minute! Are you telling me it’s okay to criticize one’s own party’s leaders when they do something wrong!?

It’s not about changing the minds of conservative politicians or voters. It’s about energizing progressive voters. Like you said, the right-wing nut jobs love this. They’ll come out to vote. It’s progressive voters who are discouraged and that can lead to even less voting, which leads to even less of a chance to stop…

That view is very common in moderate white America. We’re brought up this way, believing America is about all those high-minded principles and that’s its people are fundamentally good. That evidence to the contrary is an exception to this rule. They’re just “Bad apples.”

which isn’t a world most of us want to live in

It’s funny because you smug centrist scolds

America’s reasonable instinct to protect infants

This sort of shit just reinforces my growing hatred of all people. We are just such complete fucking morons, as a species. That this sort of thing makes any number of peoples’ heads go up and down in agreement makes me not want to even belong to the same gene pool.

They’re going to do what they’re going to do. Point is that doesn’t mean you throw up your hands and stop passing legislation if you can. If they want to force a constitutional crisis, they will do so. But even they can’t be sure they can maintain power if they go down that road. It could go very badly for them.

Not meaningless. Roe v. Wade is a court decision. They can overturn it simply by saying it was incorrectly ruled. To overturn a law passed by Congress using Judicial Review, they have to find, in the Constitution, that the federal government does not have the right to do what the law says.

Whatever the reality was, the likely reality now is a real shortage due to hoarding. If we could run store shelves dry of toilet paper in the pandemic when there was literally no problem in the supply chain, we can definitely do it with formula when there actually IS an event like the Abbott recall.

And the difference between moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats is that the Republican party will turn on their own if they break on key issues.

Republicans don’t pass every piece of legislation with just 50 Senators either. Stop pretending this is something that only Democrats can’t do. Neither party gets 100% of their party to vote with them 100% of the time.

“It’s really simple. Show us your picture, and we’ll tell you if you’re qualified for the job.”

I don’t know. Post history of the OP here doesn’t suggest troll but.. it’s so hard to believe people are actually STILL asking why they should vote Democrat when exactly what we fucking told them would happen if they didn’t vote for Hillary is NOW FUCKING HAPPENING.

For anybody thinking that the Republicans won’t get a majority in the Senate in the next few elections, you are naive.

You must not have heard... Republicans are overturning Roe v. Wade ASAP and banning abortion. The thing they’ve been riling up their base about for 50 years. They’re doing it.

I think the point is many don’t even try until they think they have votes. Force the fucking vote anyway! Make people go on record as having voted against something.

It’s not hard to imagine. First, imagine you are so far to the right that your moral compass says a billionaire former reality game show host, serial liar, and thrice-married adulterer was “sent by God” to lead this country back to greatness.

To be a little pedantic, the mechanism exists. It’s the same mechanism as impeaching the President. It’s just too high a bar for our current political reality to cross... so yeah, potato... potahtoe.