House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

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      They just want money and plausible deniability. Any one of these Dems can just be bought like a repub

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      Wow I can’t believe those fake congresspersons on that parody news site would say that. Thank you for bringing this into real political discussions. /s

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            I feel bad for if you truly believe that. At best we’d get democrats kicking the can for 4 years, making 0 progress, then trump or another ghoul gets elected in 2028 and all this still happens

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              My idea of voting harder is more than 50 Dems, which hasn’t happened in many years, then they could consider taking the Filibuster off for a while.

              Ideally 60 Dems, enough to pass all of their platform without being filibustered and without giving Republicans a chance to fight back.

              We haven’t even tried that but everybody in here is so ready to blame Dems for not being in charge.