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Democrats capture full control of Congress, NBC News projects, fueled by victories in deeply Republican states (www.nbcnews.com)
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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.

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[–] 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    this is the way. the primaries are the elections. republicans at every level violated or were derelict in their duty to stop violations of the constitution. voting republican is 100% anti american since trump started violating it as a matter of executive policy. Conservatives need to boot the republican party and form a new one that goes back to progressive pre nixon conservatism.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    That would be what Democrats currently are (neoliberals). The Democrats have capitulated so much over the last 40 years, that the Overton window has shifted so far right that conservatives think Schumer, Biden, and Clinton are "radical left communists".

    The right will never come back to reason. The last decade has shown what they are. They are not only the treasonous remains of the Confederates and Nazi parties, they are also all compromised pedophiles and sex crime perpetrators. We cannot exist with people who LOVE hurting people and are just waiting for the chance to setup concentration camps and nuke the world. They need to go, and then the neoliberal traitors who take money from Israel.

    Until that is done, nothing will change for the better at all

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    the right of the democrats are like that but there are progessive elements that are increasing that are not. So yeah the most right democrats would be typical or such a party and likely would move over honestly if such a thing came to pass. If such a thing did happen conservatives would find themselves in the strange position of seeming to be the more stable and responsible party rather than the party of nutters.

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