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Trump Is Proving Democratic Presidents Weren’t Powerless | Obama and Biden pretended they had no power to enact their populist promises. Trump’s "rampage of unilateral executive power" proves the lie (jacobin.com)

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Because anarchists often embrace explicitly revolutionary rhetoric and reject reformism

Personally I think it's silly to give up tools but the general argument is that electing lesser evils just gives them a veneer of legitimacy, consent of the governed and such