• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    We just had 38 house republicans publicly vote for a funding bill that Trump publicly supported. He can only lose 3 on future bills.

    We’ve had his pick for attorney general already withdraw from consideration after he knew he wouldn’t get the senate confirmation votes

    They aren’t in lockstep in the way they need to be to be invincible

    The US has managed to recover from the brink before so long as people fight

    The very second US president, John Adams, threatened to be an all powerful leader after he passed the Sedition act. He used it to prosecute his political opponents for their speach. People fought against it, even if they had to write anonymously out of fear of persecution.

    But the Federalist party that Adams was a part of was still only mostly on board. Took multiple votes despite them having control of congress. One of the provisions they ended up adding to get it through was one to make it expire in 2 years and soften the language a little. People fought it hard and eventually they let it expire once adams had lost the very messy elections of 1800 in part because of it