I blocked a lot of political keywords, so I am genuinely asking because I might be ill informed. What concrete actions have the Democrats taken to block, stop, or reverse Trumps illegal actions?
Again, I am genuinely asking.
Question: why would they want to block trump? For a lot of Democrats the system is working as intended. Heck, 75 dems just voted to congratulate ICE on a job well done: https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-ice-gratitude-resolution-backlash-2084004
I’m of the opinion that they don’t want to stop trump at all.
They’re saying mean words, thats about it
Fuck all.
A handful of democrats have been going across the country to explain to younger voters what exactly is going on, what they can do about it, and what they can expect from those campaigning to try and stop this further. The powerful democrats are censoring those democrats. Cause heaven forbid a politician listens to its voter base
Several democratic governors sued over the tariffs. So far the court has declared the tariffs to be illegal, but is for some reason allowing them to be collected while the case is appealed.
The gov of Maine sued him for withholding federal funds over having trans athletes and won.
The NYTimes has a pretty good article tracking the myriad of suits against him. They mention that 184 of them “have at least temporarily paused the administration’s initiatives.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/trump-administration-lawsuits.html
A handful of senators and state legislators have attempted to visit some of the prisons/ICE detention facilities, starting with Chris Van Hollen, who flew to El Salvador to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
David Hogg is attempting to primary the old do-nothing dinosaurs in the party.
I think right now we’re all looking to California to see what they do in a literal military standoff with Trump. I don’t know if it will be enough, but I don’t think it will be nothing.
Complaining on social media. (said only partially sarcastically)
The answer is nothing. The Democratic Party went into shell shock after the elections repudiated over 30 years of established norms. We clearly need something new and fresh, based around class politics. The real villains are the 1% who sit on boards and play both sides. Until we have a political party that stands up for the other 99%, we are fucked. The entire two-party system is rigged against true representation and is instead controlled by special interests. Trump is no better than the neoliberals who helped create him.
They’re complying.
That’s what they’re doing.
I would like an answer for this as well. We’ve seen exactly one filibuster, which wasn’t against any particular piece of legislation or appointee.
Democrats oppose progressives, not republicans.
That’s because Republicans aren’t as much of a threat to their office as progressives. Some Dems are sitting in basically lifetime seats and they wouldn’t want that disrupted. The Ds haven’t done anything significant yet at all. And it won’t come from Democrats. It’ll come from the people if it happens at all. And once something big happens by and from the people, that’s when the Ds will step in and take a side. Fucking cowards.
Progressives oppose progressives and liberals try to keep the world running.
liberals try to keep the world running.
The world is built on the backs of the workers you hate.
I’m a worker and not the self hating variety.
Just enough of a realist to know the progressive’s biggest enemy is themselves.
If that’s the case, your shitty pro-genocide anti-worker wing of the party wouldn’t need to keep doing everything they can to shut out progressives.
The pro-genocide argument is the exact same as anti-abortionist’s ‘would someone think of the poor babies!’
Nice pivot away from your bullshit about the progressives opposing themselves.
Palestinians are people. Fetuses are not.
The least disgusting thing about you is your username.
I mean, people have no empathy for people we can’t see IRL, with our own eyesballs, not pictures and recordings, being it closer home: my fellow workers are already born humans. But people have no empathy for them either.
I wish I could find that post, I believe it was on hex, about the liberal zero sum game. Because it hit dead center, hard, for me.
It’s okay to admit that you don’t like me but you love arguing with me.
I enjoy our conversations.
Username accurate shitty post. I hope this is all a bit…
It’s not. He’s notoriously contrarian
Earnest answer: they have made the argument that they lost the presidency and both houses of Congress, therefore, whatever happens is not on them. They are taking the stance that since they don’t have the legal power, they’re doing their part by raising awareness, going to committee meetings to verbally oppose trump’s regime, and voting against bills when they can. In the Senate, Dems have been almost united in voting against trump’s nominees (looking at you, Fetterman). But they (Dem leadership) have been very straightforward that they don’t have the power. Their strategy is that republicans will fail so hard that the rest of the country will be running back to democrats by the midterms. I’ll let you decide how effective they’ve been.
To their credit, it’s true that they have almost no legal power. The House votes by simple majority, so there’s next to nothing House Dems can do. In the Senate, Dem Senators can filibuster some bills. It’s super important to remember that a lot of bills, like budget bills or judicial nominations, cannot be filibustered. Add on top of that, republicans are disorganized as hell and have barely submitted any legislation for a vote that could be filibustered even if the Dems wanted to. So there’s really very little Dem Senators can do on the Senate floor.
So, the answer is, barely nothing because legally, they truly don’t have the power. That all said, they are basically sitting on their hands. There’s SO MUCH they could be doing. For instance, imagine the POWER and HISTORY that Dems could’ve made had they one-by-one stood up and walked out of trump’s state of the union address. Dems could stand on the Capitol step EVERY DAY to protest, demand media attention, and use their platform. They aren’t. They’re letting us burn because most of them are playing politics.
Good luck to them, you, me, and everybody else…
75 Democrats just voted to express gratitude towards ICE.
https://www.newsweek.com/75-democrats-house-antisemitism-resolution-ice-gratitude-2083177
They’re actually going to work and doing their job, not sitting on their hands. The reality is that most Dems are just part of this ongoing process and have no intention to resist it, even if they had power.
Honestly if they aren’t jailing republicans at this point it isn’t enough. Iirc there is a few lawsuits and strongly worded letters that will of course accomplish nothing meaningful as usual
nothing.
Untrue! They are paying the Jen O’Malley Dillons of the world to make a YouTube channel nobody watches to push neoliberalism, but in SPAAAAACE, which we now call Abundance, and have weird swinger conferences for. #winning
Probably waiting for Americans to stop stripping them of their power and handing it over to a felon rapist traitor and his treasonous party.
I wish trump were “traitorous” to the US project of native eviction, white supremacy and genocide, but he’s not, and neither is any US democrat.
Yeah, that’s the problem with Republicans, they’re not loyal enough patriots…
There isn’t a lot more they can do that you or I couldn’t. Because a majority of voters didn’t turn up, or have the moral fabric of pond scum and voted for Republicans for government offices, giving both houses of Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court over to the American Fascist Party. If you have any useful suggestions about what the party now completely out of federal power should be doing, I’m sure about a third of the country would like to know.
Anywhere that gerrymandering has entrenched GOP power should absolutely be seeing violent revolution.
“bUt tHaT wIlL gIvE tRuMp wHaT hE wAnTs!”
It’s not the responsibility of a political party to police the actions of an administration. If someone does something you believe to be illegal, you sue them. According to a LLM search, the administration has over 250 cases against them right now. The courts are the ones responsible for judging the actions of the administration and holding it accountable.
Trump was elected to do the things he’s doing. There’s no surprises here. Congress is stacked against the Democrats. There really isn’t anything they can legally do until they regain either the Senate or the House.
The concern should be the legal actions he’s taking; the ones the supreme court ultimately determine are fine. The few that pass that bar are going to be major hurdles to restoring normalcy.
What the Democrats should be doing is forming a unified party that listens to the concerns of the people and finding someone to voice this movement.
It really comes down to the people. We always have the choice of who to elect. We seem to be voting for people who are against our own personal interests because our electoral system is a farce. Politicians are lying so often and so blatantly now that, regardless of your affiliation, the truth is often clouded by bias and emotion, if not intentionally buried. About half of Americans now believe our elections are rigged even though the evidence indicates they’re highly secure.
I mean, if you’re here asking what can be done to fix this shit we’re in right now, the answer is to reform our elections, make them tax payer funded, embrace STAR or Ranked Choice Voting, and pass the bill that prevents elected leaders from holding stocks. Or, I don’t know how you do this but getting people to know the difference between factual unbiased news and fake news and preventing biased opinions from distorting their realities.
^ this is what sniffing glue does to your brain kids
💯 by definition the party cannot fail as it is defined by the party as doubleplusgood inherently
Really? Tell me how a political party can police another party. The only actions congress, in particular, have is impeachment. Impeachment is effectively suing the defendant with no inherit repercussions.
Give me one example of an illegal action taken by this administration and what the Democrats could legally do to “block, stop, or reverse” it.
The Congress has WAY more tools than just impeachment to check illegal executive actions. Impeachment’s the nuclear option, but daily oversight is where real accountability happens. Let’s just take a look at a few tools dems could use.
Trump admin officials like Wilbur Ross repeatedly ignored subpoenas about the citizenship census question. Dems could’ve jailed officials for contempt ,like the GOP did to Lois Lerner, or sued for enforcement. They folded. Trump’s family separation policy violated asylum laws. Congress controls the purse. They could’ve defunded ICE/CBP’s ability to implement it. Instead, they funded it more. Trump’s emoluments violations (e.g., foreign govs. paying at his hotels). Pass a bill explicitly banning presidential self-enrichment. When Dems did act (e.g., suing over border wall funds), they won which proves that legal avenues exist.
Claiming “Congress can’t do anything” ignores history. When Bush pushed torture, Congress passed the Detainee Treatment Act. When Obama overreached on immigration, courts blocked him. Weakness is a choice, not a constraint. Even without majority control, minority parties have real power, which dems are not using. They can force subpoena votes, sue in court (like Dems did to block Trump’s border wall funding), leverage Senate filibusters, and rally public pressure. Republicans proved this by stonewalling Obama’s Supreme Court pick for 10 months with only Senate control. The tools exist, and the lack of oversight reflects political opportunism as opposed to institutional impossibility.
They can… sue in court (like Dems did to block Trump’s border wall funding)
Yes. That’s exactly my entire point. And this only works if the courts determine the act to not be legal. This is why, as I said, there are over 250 cases against the administration right now.
There’s a lot going on right now which the public dislikes but that doesn’t necessarily make an act illegal. If nothing else, Trump knows how to work the courts. He also disregards the courts and we’re still waiting to see if there’s any repercussions to that.
Trump is not Obama. Obama fucked up by caving to McConnell. Trump would not do the same. There is no comparison of this administration and any other. History is irrelevant at this point.
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Dems could’ve jailed officials for contempt
How does that work?
So you’re admitting that you have no clue how the US legal system works?
Yes. Tell me how congress jails officials.
Google exists, spend some time educating yourself if you genuinely care about understanding the subject. If you’d like me to tutor you, then feel free to send a dm and pay me for the effort.
Are you lost?
Congress is stacked against Democrats. There really isn’t anything they can legally do until they regain the Senate or the House
Except praise ICE, I guess. It doesn’t really matter that Congress is stacked against the Democrats. They’ve shown everyone who they are and what they stand for and it’s not clear in the least that they would behave significantly differently if they were in power. From Biden building the wall to Kamala saying “Do not come”, and all of the messaging of the Ds since they lost and now 75 Ds voting to praise ICE…
This bill is about denouncing the antisemitic attack in Boulder with a single line at the literal bottom reading,
expresses gratitude to law enforcement officers, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.
I won’t stop you from holding politicians accountable for every line of every bill they vote for but you’re distorting reality to fit your narrative. There is nothing wrong with supporting this bill and I question why anyone would reject it.
