They really just took them at face value, threw their hands in the air, and said “okay, guess we’re done here.”
At the end of the day, now they can get a lot of racist and classist policies passed by the Trump admin with the support of some “centrist” Democrats. They get to serve the oligarchy and Trump gets the blame. When the Democrats are at it again, they will roll back a small fraction of these policies and keep the majority of them. Rinse and repeat.
Or they just don’t care as much, as it doesn’t matter to their long term political goals.
Before the election they were up in arms rhetorically how Trump will be the end to Democracy. And then they went after “moderate” Republicans like Cheney, who is a mass murderer war criminal. Now the Democrats continue helping to pass Trump bills. Blue states crack down on anti war and anti ICE protests…
At the end of the day, now they can get a lot of racist and classist policies passed by the Trump admin with the support of some “centrist” Democrats. They get to serve the oligarchy and Trump gets the blame. When the Democrats are at it again, they will roll back a small fraction of these policies and keep the majority of them. Rinse and repeat.
Oh yes, of course, the Dems secretly want GOP to win.
It sure fucking seems like it.
Or they just don’t care as much, as it doesn’t matter to their long term political goals.
Before the election they were up in arms rhetorically how Trump will be the end to Democracy. And then they went after “moderate” Republicans like Cheney, who is a mass murderer war criminal. Now the Democrats continue helping to pass Trump bills. Blue states crack down on anti war and anti ICE protests…