President Donald Trump repeated threats to revoke tax-exempt status from ideological enemies – including Harvard University and Wikipedia – could come back to haunt conservatives, Republican lawyer and historian Joshua Claybourn warned Friday.In a sharply worded New York Times op-ed, Claybourn took ...
  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    everything they are doing could be used against them and this is why tampering with rules to cater to partisanships are usually avoided because at best it’s only just setting a strategy for opposition?

    I mean, if we look at how the opposition Democrats have played thus far, that is barely a gamble.

    • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They are a minority so not sure what you’re expecting to have happen there.

      • shikitohno@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I don’t know, they could at least obstruct as much as the Republicans did for them whenever the Democrats were in power and had a chance to pass actual progressive legislation, but chickened out and said they needed to compromise the shit out of it to make a bipartisan effort, since the Republican minority was blocking anything and everything they tried to do.