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What the fuck did these useless cunts think would happen?
They passed the buck and hoped some other guardrail would do their job for them
I think this has a very high chance of being exactly the case, out of all the comments in this post.
Edit: actually, IIRC, Schumer has more or less stated that it's his plan to just let Trump off the leash, not be an opposition party at all, and let Americans get what they voted for. Basically, instead of seeing that they lost to motherfucking Trump a second time and wondering if maybe they're the problem, they've decided on punishing all of the US, including their own constituents who did elect them, for not choosing the democrats.
Have a source for that?
Trying to find it and not having a lot of luck because I don't remember the exact quote, and variations of "Trump Schumer Poll Strategy" just leads to a dump truck of results about Schumer's own (worse than Trump) embarrassingly bad poll numbers and articles about how pissed off democrats are with their own party. IIRC, it was on the Daily Show. I'll update if I do find it.
But fucking why? It was so easy to just vote no. What did they get in return??
Quid pro quo, donor money, punditry at legacy media outlets.
They thought since they do performative bullshit, politics is performative bullshit, so anyone they confirm into office also does only performative bullshit.