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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbsent from headlines: 47 engages in wildly illegal, mob-style acts of revenge for the DEMs REFUSAL to be ACCOMPLICES...
...to the harm this regime is doing to our nation, our communities, our families, and our neighbors.They are destroying American lives with their wildly illegal firings and refusal to release funds appropriated by congress, shutdown or not.
OF COURSE the illegal acts will not stop until the Republican Congress stands up and forces them to stop. The shutdown is just the thing they are using as cover for actions ALREADY in the works.
Democrats must continue to refuse to be ACCOMPLICES in the harm 47, his Republican mini me's, and his ICE shock troops are doing to people across this nation.
We MUST NOT continue to enable a man who threatens to deploy American active-duty military against civilians who share the aspirations embodied in our constitution (and that includes ALL 27 amendments, not just the first 10 that are in the Trump Bible).
This is about a LOT MORE than Health Care Affordability.
It is about exposing how utterly lawless this regime is.

The Roux Comes First
(1,878 posts)After all these decades of glorifying fake heroes like John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, these screaming wheenies can't even get up the gumption to have or express an original thought! They're afraid of their own shadows!
pat_k
(11,972 posts)It will NOT be out of some newly found "courage." It will just be a new kind of fear -- fear of Republican losses, particularly among those in states or house districts that republicans generally win by less than 10%.
As 47 continues to damage the Republican "brand," there will be attempts -- probably feeble attempts -- to put distance between themselves and the trump regime on the most unpopular actions. They will be feeble attempts because they'll be trying to 'thread the needle" (find things they can object to without getting themselves on Trump's enemies list). But a crack is a crack, however small. And little cracks tend to grow.
Frankly, if the FCC-Kimmel debacle had happened when Trump still had majority approval on the economy and immigration, I don't think Ted Cruz would have denounced the FCC mob-tactics. I think Ted is seriously concerned about having to welcome James Talarico as the Junior Senator from Texas in 2027 and is looking for places he can make a show that Republicans aren't all in lock step with the regime on everything -- something he can use to salvage the "brand." He is well aware how close Beto got. (Unfortunately, Cornyn and Paxton are currently to busy trying out MAGA each other to get Trump's endorsement, we won't see anything resembling a spine from Cornyn.)
Sorry to go off on a tangent. The short story is that while we will not be seeing anything resembling spines from the snivelers, they may start getting afraid of going down with the 47 regime ship.
Zorro
(17,948 posts)They are fully onboard with what Trump is doing.