President Donald Trump told voters to pretend he was on the ballot in this year’s midterm elections.
They did. And they resoundingly rejected both his policies and his Republican Party.
Democrats have captured full control of Congress, NBC News projects, with voters delivering a forceful repudiation of Trump’s agenda, coupled with a clear-cut message that Congress has not done enough to provide checks on his administration and needs to do more to address affordability and corruption.
Really rough night for the “elections don’t matter” and “we’re not having midterms” crowds. Pour one out for them.
Everyone said “trump is not leaving office”
And they said, “the corporate Dems share the same donors as MAGA”
Neither of those has been disproven and we will quickly see how constrained they are and how no one can be held accountable. That is what people have been saying and that is not a psyop. It is 40 years of data
Every single person who has been angry, upset, scared, and frustrated with the past two years needs to be up their representative’s ass TOMORROW to tell them to put these fucking fascists in prison and burn anyone who stood with them. We cannot let the Democrats try to have things go back to the status quo.
The GOP and big business has proven they will fucking grind us to dust if it means they can make more money. Every single sack of shit lining up behind Trump’s fascist regime needs to be held accountable. Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, Markwayne Mullin, and Pete Hegseth need to be in fucking prison. Kash Patel needs to be in front of a committee every fucking day for his bullshit.
Elon Musk’s companies need to be nationalized or stripped of all their govt contracts. That motherfucker needs to be deported. Meta, Google, and Amazon need to be regulated.
Tomorrow? They aren’t sworn in until next year. Like unless they are an incumbent they wouldn’t have staff to answer a call or even an email address set up.
I’m generally addressing those with incumbent Dem representatives who have sat on their hands the past two years.
Some of the new incoming reps might have contact forms on their campaign sites.
My point is there needs to be continuous pressure and not complacency from the public.
We can now hold the line, and he won’t get two, new, young SCOTUS Justices. That’s not nothing, but don’t expect Universal Healthcare or an end to the executive orders.
In two years we should oust the “centrist” Dems, even the ones we like, and replace them with the “radical left” DSA candidates. I’ll vote to replace Melanie Stansbury if a viable DSA candidate rises to challenge her. Fear of “splitting the vote” be damned.
I hope Democrats would no longer make excuses of having “slim minority” not to pass popular policies.
Now they’ll say they can’t pass anything because Trump will just veto it.
More likely that they will pass shit and trump will veto it, but folks will still get their jollies off saying nothing was done and use it to support JD in 28 or some shit.
Now that I think about, Dems could credibly threaten Trump with impeachment now they have overwhelming majority in both congress and senate.
Yes, they can impeach (put Trump on trial) but they cannot remove him from office. They would need a supermajority of the Senate for that. Trump has already been impeached twice.
The only threat the Democrats have is to make the impeachment trial a public affair and present evidence of Trump’s wrongdoing. They cannot force him to testify under oath due to the Fifth Amendment. It will not do much good since Trump is not allowed to run for reelection.
Republicans will filibuster everything and Democrats will just fold as usual.
And it’s Fetterman-proof in the Senate. What a weird and great night.
Just be careful and hold steady. Those billionaire-owned media companies are going to start their societal shaping immediately and they are good at that shit. Go “the People”!
Need more Dems in there, one could act as a spoiler and Fuck everything up
Jeffries, Schumer and Trump? Lots of New York power. People might be surprised by what a Democratic Congress can work out with the current administration.
The danger for Democrats is them thinking this is an endorsement of the socialist democrat platform. It is not. This election was completely an anti-Trump anti-Republican election. If Democrats overstep, they will get slapped back next election. (just an opinion of course)
I think the danger is that Democrats don’t think this is an endorsement of socialist democratic platform and aren’t seen to do enough in the next two years, like what happened between 2021 and 2025. If they understep they will get slapped back next election.
What would be a major socialist democratic platform you think Americans want to see?
For real. Please overstep lol.
Dude what world is this comment from? The chances of the Democrats accomplishing nothing of note and losing because of it is like 300x the chances of them “overstepping”.
Looking at the overwhelming results, to me it very much looks like a complete repudiation of Trump and Republicans. I don’t see any particular policies or platforms from the Democrats voters explicitly embraced. The election was a rejection of trump and republicans, not an endorsement of Democrat platforms. What people want is affordability and a sane immigration policy.
Yeah good point, it’s not like any Democrats were campaigning on affordability lol.
