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    Jayapal said one plan is to propose a raft of executive orders President Biden could issue to “protect existing structures,” such as shielding career civil servants and Justice Department officials.

    Yes! Good!

    Some Democrats are also sensitive to the perception that they are adopting the tactics of Republican state legislators who used their supermajorities to kneecap incoming Democratic governors.

    Fucking gauge my eyeballs out. You can’t call them fascists and then object to playing dirty against them.

    “We’re trying to show how the United States is supposed to conduct itself every four years when a new person takes over the reins of government,” said Cleaver.

    McConnell denied Obama a Supreme court appointment! The precedent is already set! Your norms are already broken!

    If democrats want to win they must purge their own ranks of members like Cleaver and rebuild with more Jayapals or else they will keep ceding grounds to fascists.