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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

More specifically, he didn't want to allow the precedent of allowing the supreme Court to simply arbitrarily pick the president if the Republicans whined enough, which is what was happening.

Good thought, bad execution.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And in that want ... He allowed the supreme court the power to arbitrarily pick the president.

Maybe he should've, you know, fought. but Dems don't do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's hardly fair. democrats fight Progressives every chance they get.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Progressives don't fight either.

All modern leftists are either inactive, or they're mostly just analyzing the politics, with some light protest that isn't really commited enough to win unless the fascists decide to just fold.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago

ah yes, this is the attitude that will fix everything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

He also didn't want the mass unrest this would trigger.

And so people were demobilized.