These votes demonstrate that the Democratic Party functions not as an opposition but as an enabler of the Trump administration. Its priority is to ensure the uninterrupted funding of the US military while diverting popular opposition with calls for meaningless cosmetic changes to the administration’s efforts to establish a presidential dictatorship.

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      15 hours ago

      Them explain MAGA taking over the GOP. If the status quo can’t change, how could it change for them? This defeatism is useless and projection of your own sense of powerlessness.

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        14 hours ago

        Unlike the Democrats, the GOP didn’t have a superdelegate system in 2016. If they had such a system, Jeb Bush would’ve won the primary.