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minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down9·edit-29 hours agoAnd your decision to surrender the 2000s to Bush is what got us here, all because you didn’t want to go against the norms.
minus-squareysjet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 hours agoMore specifically, he didn’t want to allow the precedent of allowing the supreme Court to simply arbitrarily pick the president if the Republicans whined enough, which is what was happening. Good thought, bad execution.
minus-squaresuperniceperson@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·8 hours agoAnd in that want … He allowed the supreme court the power to arbitrarily pick the president. Maybe he should’ve, you know, fought. but Dems don’t do that.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 hours agoHe also didn’t want the mass unrest this would trigger. And so people were demobilized.
And your decision to surrender the 2000s to Bush is what got us here, all because you didn’t want to go against the norms.
More specifically, he didn’t want to allow the precedent of allowing the supreme Court to simply arbitrarily pick the president if the Republicans whined enough, which is what was happening.
Good thought, bad execution.
And in that want … He allowed the supreme court the power to arbitrarily pick the president.
Maybe he should’ve, you know, fought. but Dems don’t do that.
He also didn’t want the mass unrest this would trigger.
And so people were demobilized.