Do you disagree with "all of this shit is a national emergency"? Mitch is covering for people who literally do rape kids; respecting his deathbed is a real bad look. We can make whatever judgements we want of non-voters, but allowing Republicans to run out the clock will create them.
I certainly hope you're right, and Beshear escalates very hard.
Unfortunately, not everyone does. If a politician loses too much favor, the spot often flips to the other side
We've seen this play out over and over. He'll gain favor with centrists who will vote Republican anyways, and lose favor with progressives who will stay home. Then we will blame the voters and not the policy choice.
Republicans not being honest with us and will not cooperate or compromise. You can't win a football game with all punts.
They expressed a belief about a Democrat going easy on Republicans to support his future aspirations. They're not suggesting anyone is being particularly wholesome.
First of all, America was never great. That's a MAGA lie.
Second of all, anybody in the USA who posts about "fighting for it" is either being deliberately vague about decorating cardboard signs, or won't be posting anywhere for much longer.
It's easy to romanticize an armed rebellion when it's not actually your own family at risk. Half of the people who realize what's happening are leaving, like Einstein did.
"I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks