Pretending or hoping everything unorthodox or unprecedented is somehow illegal is already becoming tiresome to read about in comment sections and it hasn’t even been a month of this administration.
The fact that they have not is telling.
Why would it make sense for them to do this? Democrats would still howl in disapproval no matter what they did.
That's a feature. Going slow and giving Democrats a chance to howl is called "democracy". It's our system. Unilaterally moving fast and breaking things without even allowing a chance for debate or input from the minority party is a different system, called "autocracy".
Democrats marginalized themselves by catering to their most fringe elements.
As they say, elections have consequences.
It must have been deeply upsetting when the White House press secretary was asked at the time why he was skipping congress, and she said that Biden was not going to “delay action” by going the legislative route.
And I’m sure you’ll feel the same way when the next Democrat president does it too right?
> It must have been deeply upsetting when the White House press secretary
yes.
> And I’m sure you’ll feel the same way when the next Democrat president does it too right?
yes. You're trying to catch me in a "gotcha" but I don't support abuse of power no matter which side is abusing that power.
Like most people on HN, I don't comment about politics here often, but I made my displeasure known at the time in other social circle. I'm here now, as I think most people are, because this is some next-level shit. Comparisons to anything Biden did are strained.
I generally don't find it hard to maintain a consistent view of executive power no matter who is wielding it, because it always comes back to: what if it was wielded against you? This is the question everyone who is in support of this right now needs to be asking themselves.
The last time republicans wielded this much power we became a global power.
Both Roosevelts.
Both hated by their opposition.
History looks kindly on both.
Trump is not a Roosevelt, but in a way neither were they in their day.
I’m a centrist. I believe the greatest living president is Clinton and it’s not even close. I hope leftsts become pragmatic again and choose a Clintonesque nominee next time.
The policies that backfired so spectacularly that the working class voted in Trump for some degree of reversal?