• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been saying since 2016 that Sanders’ executive orders alone would have moved the US further in the right direction than any president since LBJ.

    The last six months of Donald Trump have proven that. The presidency has all the power any party needs if they actually want to do real good.

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      1 year ago

      Sanders’ EOs with a conservative Supreme Court would have been unilaterally nullified. The conservative supermajority is what has allowed Trump to get away with the vast majority of this.

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        1 year ago

        Sanders’ EOs with a conservative Supreme Court would have been unilaterally nullified.

        If they’d run Sanders, they’ve had ended up with a Democratic supermajority. SCOTUS would have been largely irrelevant.

        But it doesn’t change facts. The powers of the presidency in the hands of an actual reformer, not a performative one like Biden or Obama, would have entailed true, fundamental change.