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Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany (www.politico.com)

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

And your decision to surrender the 2000s to Bush is what got us here, all because you didn't want to go against the norms.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

More specifically, he didn't want to allow the precedent of allowing the supreme Court to simply arbitrarily pick the president if the Republicans whined enough, which is what was happening.

Good thought, bad execution.

[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

And in that want ... He allowed the supreme court the power to arbitrarily pick the president.

Maybe he should've, you know, fought. but Dems don't do that.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

That's hardly fair. democrats fight Progressives every chance they get.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 17 hours ago

He also didn't want the mass unrest this would trigger.

And so people were demobilized.