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minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·6 months ago Does Biden have enough progressives to get more progressive stuff passed? No. Two conservative democrats block that. The party will always find just enough no votes, no matter how big a majority we give them.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·6 months ago2008? When we gave Democrats a supermajority and they found enough no votes to kill the public option? When we gave the Democrats a supermajority and they didn’t bother to codify Roe? That 2008?
The party will always find just enough no votes, no matter how big a majority we give them.
2008 begs to differ.
2008? When we gave Democrats a supermajority and they found enough no votes to kill the public option? When we gave the Democrats a supermajority and they didn’t bother to codify Roe? That 2008?