Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by mtswish on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:25PM
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They impeached him. Counter to Republican's rhetoric, the Democrats can't force the DOJ to press charges in a timely manner, but the DOJ eventually also pursued charges. So they attempted to fix this with:
1. Impeachment 2. Congressional Acts 3. Independent action from the Department of Justice 4. Individual states attempted to get him off their ballots for treason
How about you describe what they should have done?
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by hipadev23 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:22PM
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> why did they do practically nothing to prevent things like this from becoming a reality
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1139951463/electoral-count-ac...
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by JohnMakin on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:29PM
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This is like using a squirt gun in a forest fire. A meaningless change to a meaningless procedural "loophole" that had no chance of working whatsoever.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by klipt on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @12:21PM
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> why did they do practically nothing to prevent things like this from becoming a reality?
You mean like passing "The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022"? That was literally written to support democracy and prevent another Jan 6.
Obviously you can't write legislation to stop Trump winning democratically while still supporting democracy.
Dems have at least shown they're the party of supporting real democracy.
It's not very good messaging at its core. You can't say something is an existential crisis, and then spend 4 years doing absolutely nothing about that crisis other than to say "vote for me again so that won't happen this time."