Ok, Democrats. You will soon have the kind of majorities you haven’t had in decades.
Democrats were elected to do two things: make America more affordable and check Trump.
Checking Trump and delivering accountability is the easier of the two tasks. There will be nothing stopping Democrats from investigating whatever and whoever they want.
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Affordability won’t involve passing legislation as much as using congressional leverage against Trump to do things like restoring Medicaid, ACA, and SNAP subsidies, and ending the Iran war, so that gas, diesel, and other prices fall.
However, Democrats as a party must avoid the traps of infighting and self-sabotage.
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Sarah Jones thought back to what happened during the internal fight over Obamacare on Chew’s Views:
When Obama got elected, and then it was the 2010 midterms- and Republicans took over. Who trolled Obama the most? A lot of Democrats. The left. Yeah. Yeah. The far left. The far left. The far left did. And the far left, and some of it was even racist, right?
And they did it to undermine Obamacare because it didn't go far enough in their mind. Obamacare has helped millions of people get healthcare. I'm one of them. And so I know as an independent contractor that I've been throughout my life when I worked in different in TV and different parts of my career we didn't have access to health insurance.
So here was Obamacare addressing this huge problem of all these people that maybe they own a business, and you can't afford health insurance for one person on a business if you're, you can't pay $2,000 a, a month. Anyway, my point is, I, that's the first place my brain went to was because I think, so let's harness the anger. The anger is appropriate. Harness the feeling, harness the organizing energy that, and those, that has already been created. That's the hard work, the first step in the hard work.
Sarah pointed out that there is a difference between organizing and self-sabotage.