Comment by DasEigentor on 03/02/2025 at 14:50 UTC

579 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)

View submission: Senator's 'flatly unconstitutional' proposal would lock in Republican control of chamber for years • Minnesota Reformer

Land doesn’t vote. People do. (Thank you Earl Warren).

It’s astonishing how quickly the party that used to consider themselves the defenders of the constitution switched their perspective to these perverse and anti-democratic (little d) positions.

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Comment by jimbo831 at 03/02/2025 at 15:13 UTC

226 upvotes, 6 direct replies

Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.

- David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

Comment by noelhk at 03/02/2025 at 15:20 UTC

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“Little d” is exactly the energy they’re giving

Comment by wise_comment at 03/02/2025 at 21:15 UTC

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Thank you Earl Warren

I just had the strongest flashback to studying for a test in the basement of Walter Library in like ...2008

That was vivid

Comment by C_est_la_vie9707 at 03/02/2025 at 15:35 UTC

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Shhh you'll hurt the Rocks and Cows' feelings.