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Trump administration 2024-2028
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The irony of a person imagining what another might be imagining...
There actually is a DSA, and it actually has policy planks.
More broadly, I am confident these are not positions held by the American centre: pack the USSC, abolish the Senate, eliminate the presidency, open the borders, support all things Palestinian, oppose all things Israeli (with strong overtones of plain ordinary anti-Jewish prejudice), allow men and boys to participate in women's and girl's sports, enact universal healthcare that would require the elimination of private employer-provided plans, reduce policing, nationalize a bunch of things.
Ordinarily parties that advance to majority in the House and Senate retain their leaders, but a few are spitballing challenging Jeffries and Schumer. It'll be funny if Schumer's efforts to accommodate people who want to remove him don't save him from being one of those eaten first rather than last.
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The republicans lost the house and the senate, very predictable. American political pundits have been saying for months this was going to happen. Surprised?
The so what? How does this REALLY affect us? Anyone thinking the tariffs are going anywhere? Unless Carney follows through with this latest deal and pushes for it to go through. Watch and shoot. I highly suggest you don't celebrate prematurely.
On that note, many of these Yank political pundits said it was cost of living, high gas prices and the Iran war as the leading factors in booting the Republicans.
I remember people I knew who were die hard anti-Trump folks (not on here but other aspects of my life) who thought the end of Trump was when he lost the 2020 election or his criminal trials, they were like "yeah justice". I warned them, Trump has an army of high priced lawyers, he ain't going anywhere. And sure enough, he won the election in the fall of 2024. Second term, so he is done. What does he do on his way out?
No, I have zero liking of Trump.
The so what? How does this REALLY affect us? Anyone thinking the tariffs are going anywhere? Unless Carney follows through with this latest deal and pushes for it to go through. Watch and shoot. I highly suggest you don't celebrate prematurely.
On that note, many of these Yank political pundits said it was cost of living, high gas prices and the Iran war as the leading factors in booting the Republicans.
I remember people I knew who were die hard anti-Trump folks (not on here but other aspects of my life) who thought the end of Trump was when he lost the 2020 election or his criminal trials, they were like "yeah justice". I warned them, Trump has an army of high priced lawyers, he ain't going anywhere. And sure enough, he won the election in the fall of 2024. Second term, so he is done. What does he do on his way out?
No, I have zero liking of Trump.
The House was predicted. The Senate was up in the air til quite close to the election.
Trump retains charge of the executive, and with it things like foreign policy, etc. However, a lot of those senior administration officials require Senate confirmation. With bicameral hearings likely about to come fast and furious, we’ll probably see some senior officials move on for greener pastures. Additionally, for Trump to achieve basically anything he wants to still get done, he’ll need congressional spending authority. He’ll make deals to get some of what he wants.
The tariffs he’s been hitting us with so far have been failing to legal challenge. Tariffs are a tax, and by and large taxation is an authority reserved for Congress. When he had a pliant Republican majority in both houses who were terrified of being primaried by Trump-backed candidates, he could run roughshod over some of these constraints of power. He’ll have a much harder time with that now.
There’s gonna be an absolute ton of political horse trading between the legislature and the executive. Who to fire; who to haul before committee investigations to testify; which curtains to pull back and which to leave be; who to shuffle off into other roles; who to offer executive sinecures to… And, of course, the budget, and spending authorization to keep government going.
Trump will fear looking like a fool. He will embrace some amount of pragmatism, because it will remain the best way to serve his own personal interests and to benefit himself.