The few lawmakers who held town halls this summer faced voters furious with Republicans about Trump’s agenda and with Democrats for not doing enough to fight back.
With political tensions running high, the vast majority of congressional lawmakers steered clear of town halls this summer. The handful who entered the lion’s den were met with boos, jeers and tense confrontations.
President Donald Trump and the Republicans may have full control of Washington, but protesters spared neither political party. At 25 town halls across the country that were viewed or attended by NBC News this summer, voters pressured Democrats to deploy more aggressive tactics as they battle Trump and took them to task over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Republicans faced hostile crowds over their support for Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” his nationwide immigration crackdown and Trump’s deployment of federal forces to Washington, D.C., in what he has called an effort to crack down on crime.
You do realize that there are people who did not vote for him?
Which is the majority, if you count those that voted for Kamala = ~75 million, and those that did not vote = ~90 million.
That always gets me with these kinds of comments too. It’s like they are telling us we deserve this because we voted for it but almost half of the people that voted wanted something else. That’s a whole lot of people who didn’t want it.
I guess when you are talking to the void on the Internet you can aim your anger at whoever you want. We are just caught in the cross hairs
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And it’s not like it’s going to be much better depending where you live in a lot of countries that are democracies(itself not so great under capitalism). Like what happened in the USA can happen and did happen in other countries to especially where fascist and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise.
This Perspektive also ignores bigger causes like media companies, systems of opression, political campaigns, lobbying groups and we’ll people in power protecting their interests as well as the state, that can form and influence what becomes public opinion. And we’ll far right fascist groups and their billionaires building this up for quite a while now.
Point being these developments are complicated and blaming the average American for trump’s victory ignores the larger picture especially when you see people from Europe calling Americans stupid and thinking that an authoritarian takeover could never happen here in western eurooe. To that where just a few years behind but it is a very real possibility.
The people that sat out the process canceled out the people who didn’t want it and you can be mad at my comment or mad at the system for letting this happen.
I’m not mad at anyone. It is what it is.
Things could be different, but they’re not.
Yes but more people voted for him so he won.
But that doesn’t mean that people who did not vote for him or literally could not vote in the first place are irrelevant. Or what about the people who are actively resisting?
“resisting” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
Don’t give them facts. They’re just an irredeemable troll
Unfortunately for the point of this conversation they are irrelevant.
That’s how the process works.
allegedly
No he actually won but I’d love to see evidence if you have any.
i mean, thats what the numbers say, but actually he did a whole-ass treason so… fuck the numbers, actually.
It’s also what all the court cases said so far.
Too bad more people didn’t get off their asses and voted for Harris when it mattered.
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i voted for harris in a gerrymandered district. i didn’t have a vote; i feel distinctly disenfranchised as a matter of fact. edit: guess the state.
That’s great.
Lots of people didn’t vote though.
why didn’t they?
between gerrymandering, fraudulent fraud claims, last-minute roll drops, mail-in ‘challenges’, a coup, failure to enforce existing voter rights laws (and i could go on for some time in this vein i believe, and provide evidence at request for each of these), dont you feel there might be some suppressed turnout rather than simply low turnout? don’t you feel there might be some legitimate claims to election tampering that might not have to do with directly interfering with the vote tally?
also i got no problem with you particularly smcf. i wasn’t part of the downvotes here, i stepped away to listen to some music about an hour ago and i came back to that person telling you to shut up and i want you to know that from my perspective we are having a respectful exchange of opinions, no hard feelings here for making a valid observation about lazy complacent voting habits in american voters, nor for the unstated criticism lurking behind “That’s great.”
Would you shut up? That’s done. We need to deal with now. Exactly what is your comment supposed to do? It helps with ZERO. What l, you want to sit and smuglybtell everyone your right? Congrats. You and millions of others. Now shut up. Pretty please
centrism manifest.