• WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    This idea that only the presidential election matters in the US is wild. Does the senate and congress just sit there doing nothing? Could all of this have been prevented if the political scene wasn’t already shifted all the way towards Trumpism?

    • gwl [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      The prez has the power to add people to the senate, which is a job for Life, and Trump stacked the deck in his favour the last time he was in power