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In It to Win It

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Fri Jan 10, 2025, 04:09 AM Jan 10

The #Resistance Is Dead. Welcome to the #Surrender. [View all]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-shameful-immediate-surrender-trump-142955586.html


On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act, which would allow Homeland Security to detain and deport undocumented immigrants who have merely been charged—not convicted—of minor, nonviolent crimes. If the bill also prevails in the Senate, where it is expected to advance later this week, Donald Trump would sign it immediately upon taking office—at which point we could see people deported without due process, simply because a cop alleges that they stole, say, a tube of toothpaste from CVS. It’s also easy to imagine how MAGA-friendly law enforcement and prosecutors could take advantage of such a law, exaggerating or even fabricating charges in the hopes of nabbing an “illegal.”

Despite this, 48 Democrats joined Republicans in passing the bill. One of them, Representative Tom Suozzi of New York, recently wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in which he argued, “Only by working together to find compromise on parts of the president-elect’s agenda can we make progress for Americans who are clearly demanding change in the economy, immigration, crime and other top issues.” Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is undoubtedly in agreement. Not only is he a co-sponsor of the Senate’s version of the Laken Riley Act but in the past couple of months he has been promoting himself as a supposedly “responsible,” “reasonable” Democrat intent on finding compromises with Donal Trump and the Republicans. After the House passed the bill, he joined Republican Senator Katie Britt on Fox News for a Bret Baier segment titled “Common Ground,” during which he repeated Trump’s lies about migrants, declaring, “We have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally, that have [been] convicted of crimes.… I don’t know why anybody thinks that it’s controversial that they all need to go.”

We’ve seen a similar tone from many other Democrats since Kamala Harris’s loss to Trump—and not just the usual moderates, but also progressive torchbearers like Bernie Sanders. He has been offering to work with Trump to cap credit card fees and raise the minimum wage (good luck with those). He told Business Insider last month that Elon Musk is a “very smart guy” whom he’d like to work with on cutting defense spending. Though he criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s conspiratorial thinking and views on vaccines, Sanders seemed eager to work with him on other health-related issues.

t’s as if Democrats have become accomplices in their perceived fait accompli. Many of them have taken it as a given that defaulting to an oppositional stance is antithetical to democratic principles and that it is incumbent upon them, following an election loss, to find compromises with Republicans in order to achieve progress where possible. They’re ignoring, however, the actual dynamics of the situation—namely that, by helping Trump achieve victories, they will only increase his power and influence and thereby advance Trumpism. This is the Trump paradox.
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