Posted: 17 June 2024 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | 3
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Yeah, I wasn't talking about gas prices either, though I do believe he can do something about that too. The President and executive branch can do something about most stuff I think, even if it's indirect.
It generates a clash when the sitting President appears to be helpless about important issues on his watch (Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court seats, border policy) and limits himself to tweeting about it while sitting in the Oval Office.
If you can't do anything, why should I keep voting for you? And maybe he's even technically right in some of the stuff (again, I believe *something* can be done about most issues while President but let's give the benefit of the doubt), but it's just not a good look.
But if the other guys can and do radical changes while in power, then your side is gonna be seen as ineffective, or worse, unwilling. (The old "nothing can be done without a super majority", but when Obama had it it "wasn't the right time")
Something similar is happening in my neighboring Argentina. Trump-like psycho Milei is executing radical changes for the worst with an overwhelming minority in congress and when his opposition was in power they always said they couldn't have anything major done even with majorities in both chambers.
It hurts to see the right wing as more effective and willing to impose their agenda, and it makes you wonder why. They're definitely not smarter or more cunning, in fact the guy is evidently mentally challenged.
But maybe, just maybe, the whole system benefits of some looney taking the blows of executing these measures that hurt the majority of the people while the "good guys" go "gee, I can't do anything to stop him".
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