“Alito’s next opinion piece in the WSJ is about to be ‘I am a little king, actually. The Constitution doesn’t explicitly say I’m not,’” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) quipped.

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    The ones we would think need to be replaced are largely in republican controlled areas. So that would likely gain them support from their base.

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      10 months ago

      There are millions of people who don’t vote because they believe it doesn’t matter. Reaching them would change everything.

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        While I agree on the point that dems should be trying to reach disaffected voters in red states and that these Republicans who would vote against ethics for tc justices should be replaced. I don’t see this doing that if they couldn’t already with how corrupt the republican party openly is now.

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          They don’t care because they see that Democrats aren’t doing anything that matters anyway. Why bother voting for the do-nothing party?

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            Dems in the last 3 years have done more than trump and Republicans in 4. If they can’t bother to see reality then that’s on them.

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              No one cares about one do-nothing party doing more than another do-nothing party.

              And you know what? They also did some really bad shit too. Breaking the railroad strike was unforgivable to a lot of voters, me included, because it shows me Democrats are not actually on the side of organized labor. They’re all talk.

              If they can’t bother to see reality then that’s on them.

              Democrats victim blaming the masses is another reason they don’t show up to vote. I voted. My state still went to hell with fascist culture war bullshit and the Democrats didn’t stop it.

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                What are democrats supposed to kidnap them and force them to vote? I could agree that dems need to be much better at messaging but they can’t force people to pay attention to what’s happening.

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                  I already told you; if the vote fails (as it likely would) then it could be used as a rallying cry to motivate voters and spark protests and generate momentum for reform. People don’t care about voting because Democrats always lose. If AOC told her supporters to make McCarthy’s life a living hell and forced him to hold a vote, nonvoters would see Democrats are willing to play hardball and act!

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                    If people aren’t paying attention to how openly corrupt the republican party as a whole is, this vote won’t do much to change that. There’s playing hardball and then there’s giving your opponents an easy W.