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I think American voters have a part to play in this, falsely thinking everything's hunkydory now, simply because there are fewer stooges in government. Time to transition from the harm reduction phase to the action phase. Advocate for continued progress towards full-throated change to the corrupt electoral system.
Back to Congress, prosecute all the evil fascist fucks around Trump, and what's left in the President's office is a doddering old man that, at this point just wants attention. If Democrats are smart, they could use that to their advantage.
Let me stop you right there...
I don't mean to be pessimistic, I mean to say we're still well within the up hill battle phase, and all this unfettered celebration is going to fool a lot of less savvy people into thinking the hard part is over.
Just remember what happened to AoC vs Nancy Pelosi. The Dems already have a playbook for kowtowing progressives. I'll be schocked if we make any progress even undoing Trump's damage before we replace most establishment style Dems with actual, honest and unbribeable progressives.
We've got smarter progressives now, and every election we may get more. Since I don't live in the USA I will wait and see, maybe protest in solidarity when I can.
But it remains to be seen whether the public at large and the Dem caucus understand that we're at the starting line not the finish, and continued advocacy is necessary from the bottom and the top.
Skepticism is healthy but I'll wait a week or so for the initial wave of relief to subside, to see the first signs of whether the party wants to be serious about getting to work come January. I am obviously worried about Schumer and Jeffries being tar traps to any momentum, but I am looking at two things:
If those senators who campaigned on getting money out of politics don't get political bribe money out of their own leadership as well, Schumer, Jeffries or otherwise, they will have failed at their promise.