Why? Obstructing Obama was the only thing Republicans did the previous eight years. President Obama had a comparatively high approval rating, but yet attacking him non-stop seemed to get them back control of Congress just fine. The only thing the Democrats need to worry about is Gerrymandering and the fact that they have more Senate seats to defend than Republicans. That gives them a slim margine for error, but the mid-term elections will be a referendum on Trump, and the people hate him. There's no, but her emails this time.
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but yet attacking him non-stop seemed to get them back control of Congress just fine.
is WOEFULLY incorrect, sir.
Attacking Obama didn't get the Republicans back in control of both chambers in Congress.
Disaffected low information millennials sitting at home on their lazy entitled butts instead of voting did,
sulking hyper-partisan ultra liberals who decided to stay home and not vote at all because THEIR DREAM CANDIDATE didn't win did, Democrats who stayed glued to the election results and
"thought we had the Hillary win IN THE BAG" and didn't bother to go out and vote did, people who didn't bother to fact check all the
conspiracy nuts did, ass hats who screamed
"HILLARY IS WORSE THAN TRUMP!" and
"NEVER HILLARY!!!!" did.
Republicans winning the trifecta is
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OUR FAULT.
I wonder how many people actually stop to consider how different this past year would have been if we had just managed to retain our slim Senate majority. If I'm not mistaken, Bernie Sanders would have had a majority seat in the Senate Budget Committee, yes?
Despite the establishment boneheads in the Democratic Party, enough liberal Democrat senators would have been able to continue providing a bulwark and a firewall against the whackjob Freedom Caucus and the Paul Ryan-Ayn Rand worshiping cabal in the House.
A Democratic Senate Majority leader would have been able to stand up to some of the more rapacious moves coming from House Republicans on every attack against our social contract.
I'm not saying we could have stopped everything, but we could have stopped some it.
As it stands now, we are powerless to stop ANYTHING at all.
Trump is not a survivable event because an alt-Right trifecta in all three branches of government, and make no mistake about it, it is not
JUST "a Republican trifecta" IS the
alt-Right WRIT LARGE.
You people on this side need to get this through your heads: We may not have another chance at stopping this hemorrhaging of the American democratic process for another generation, if ever...if we do not
SWEEP BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS this November.
Another two years of alt-Right Republican trifecta control of all branches of government
IS the political and moral equivalent of a Reichstag Enabling Act.
And last but not least: The mid-terms is a lot more than just a referendum on Trump, because if we do not HAVE a plan, a blueprint, a set of solid values and an agenda worth looking at, we
WILL NOT GET the VOTES.
Does the loss of nearly a THOUSAND seats across America to the alt-Right not mean anything to you?
Does the loss of THREE ELECTIONS (2010, 2014 and 2016) not mean ANYTHING to you at all?
When your team is a three time loser, it is clear that dumb complacency and pretending that all that matters is attacking Trump is not enough.
Sorry Mr. Wonka but I say this with respect but also with no uncertain amount of desperation:
Being LAZY is not going to work this time, and just counting on a referendum on Trump is the height of laziness.