Donald Trump is hoping his tariffs will goad his liberal opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class. Democrats don’t have to take the bait.
I’m sorry, you needed to goad the Dems to do that? Isn’t that their day-to-day attitude?
Congress needs to pass a law requiring that any national emergency needs to be confirmed by a super majority of both the house and Senate within 15 calendar days of declaration. Or from 15 days of the passage of this law, whichever is later. An ongoing national emergency must be renewed by Congress before the sixth month of its declaration, but no earlier than it’s fifth month. Then on a yearly basis starting from the anniversary of its declaration.
Failing that, all emergency powers the president wields are revoked.
In a true emergency, the assemblage of Congress is not an onerous task. Nor is the vote.
It would take enough Republicans to overrule the presidential veto. But if done would get rid of this regimes use of the magic word “emergency.”
No way this Congress is gonna pass a law that might inconvenience the Führer.
Not a bad idea, but I can’t help but be pessimistic. It’s clearly not an emergency. There’s no single event anyone can point to that caused this “emergency” and it wasn’t an emergency the first time Trump was president. If Congress won’t push back on this at all, why wouldn’t they shamelessly vote for a fake emergency like this one?
The supermajority would prevent one party from forcing it, at least how current elections are run.
As it is both the house and Senate tried to push through a resolution to cancel this “economic emergency” but I haven’t heard much progress on it in the last week or so.
This basically reverses the current model where they have to vote to end the emergency and makes it so they have to vote to affirm it.
I mean this have to be pretty fucking stupid to not be able to capitalize on this.
So looking forward to Democrats completely fuck up the response and blame progressives for their failures.
They are beholden to their neoliberal donors, who want manufacturing offshored. Trump’s role is to give his base exactl what they want and watch it fail spectacularly
“When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
Because somehow trump wrecking the economy isn’t scoffing the working class? This argument starts disjointed from reality then presents a false dichotomy. trump’s administration & policies are a dumpster fire! How is opposing this a dilemma in any meaningful way?
The so-called “Trade War” is not the “dilemma” for Dems…
How to react to it, how to message about it… That’s their dilemma.
So, same dilemma they’ve been in since they started losing so dreadfully.
The fault, in my estimation, is in the entrenched old-school out-of-touch tech-stupid Dem leadership.
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How to react to it, how to message about it… That’s their dilemma.
Move to the right, blame progressives for any losses.
Is it really a dilemma when they always have the same answer?
