Harris-Walz / Dems

[Pocket]

Well yeah, I can't think of a single active politician in this country who I'd trust to actually fix everything Trump broke, let alone make things better than they were before. I don't honestly think a Constitutionally-limited president, even with the backing of a Congressional majority, can pull that off at this point. Considering most of the stuff he's doing, he's having to flagrantly disregard the Constitution to do in the first place.

But if the goal is to just get elected, Newsom is on the rightest track anyone in his party has been on in since Obama at least.

 

[Ungnome]

I don't trust Newsom, but he's better than Trump. Frankly Trump, is only able to impose tariffs because CONGRESS delegated that power to the office of the President. They can just as easily strip it away, if they weren't so scared of being primaried(and frankly, given the approval ratings that Trump is getting due to the tariffs, they shouldn't be so scared at this point)..

 

[Dekafox]

I don't trust Newsom, but he's better than Trump. Frankly Trump, is only able to impose tariffs because CONGRESS delegated that power to the office of the President. They can just as easily strip it away, if they weren't so scared of being primaried(and frankly, given the approval ratings that Trump is getting due to the tariffs, they shouldn't be so scared at this point)..

More accurately, he's declared "national emergencies" and is relying on the powers granted under that status to push the tariffs. But Congress can end that I believe, so ball's still in their court, just for slightly different reasons.

 

[Ungnome]

Yup, and those powers only exist because Congress granted them to the president over a series of several laws that were passed well before he took office.

 

[Rhinox]

Attempting to run on the "best economy ever" platform while inflation (regardless of source) was absolutely ******* everyone over was one of several reasons why Harris lost. It was a stupid ******* platform to hang her hat, but God forbid a Democrat say 'hey jive is fucked up and we know it'. But, look how well that went for Jimmy, right?

 

[CoffeeHorse]

The worst part of that message is the sneer that tended to accompany it. That came less from Harris and more from her media allies, but people still heard it. Up to election night MSNBC was still pushing crap about how voters were just misinformed about how good the economy really is.

If you're in a grocery store looking at prices and you're concluding you can't buy as much as you used to, it's not because Russia told you that. The prices you see are what you see.

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

So there's every reason for Trump to try to kick them out? We really shouldn't be giving Trump any ideas.

As a Californian, I wouldn't mind terribly much being made into our own country, free of Trumpian rule.