"President Biden’s executive orders seek to roll back some of Trump’s more commonsense application of due process on campus. So now prepare for the cancel culture to collapse protections like Wanda Maximoff collapsed the Hex. What can Republicans do? They don’t have the House or the Senate, so, nothing."
They do control a number of state governments and those state governments are responsible for a number of public universities. I agree that there should be no roll-back of due process protections on campuses, but the next action isn't for us to throw up our hands and make The Pug uncomfortable with our human sacrifice fixations, but to reach out to what reasonable Republicans (and Democrats) remain at the state level and would be willing to advance protections on a state-by-state basis.
Hell, some states may even force local colleges to do the Right Thing and get out of the business of policing students and mandate that *crimes* be addressed by law enforcement and the justice system instead of a bunch of bureaucrats looking to justify their existence.
And maybe in the process of Doing Work (instead of Playing TV Pundit) at the local level, we can start to reclaim the GOP bench from the #MAGA trolls and start to foster the next generation of politicians who are more concerned about getting actual stuff done. Won't be easy, but we're not as powerless as you claim.
I'd like to see the Dems take Romney's child payment plan and run with it: it's simple, easy to understand, and they could always modify the plan to leave TANF in place.
The current plan of a refundable child tax credit with forward payments is complicated.
Continually reporting on Trump in a manner that portrayed him in the worst possible light even knowing it could lead to worse governance did not help matters. Some of your fellow travelers actively urged voting to punish Republicans for electing Trump. Deliberately supporting election of what may well be disastrous administration and legislative bodies is nonsensical. Criticism is justified. Attacking every action is not.
"President Biden’s executive orders seek to roll back some of Trump’s more commonsense application of due process on campus. So now prepare for the cancel culture to collapse protections like Wanda Maximoff collapsed the Hex. What can Republicans do? They don’t have the House or the Senate, so, nothing."
They do control a number of state governments and those state governments are responsible for a number of public universities. I agree that there should be no roll-back of due process protections on campuses, but the next action isn't for us to throw up our hands and make The Pug uncomfortable with our human sacrifice fixations, but to reach out to what reasonable Republicans (and Democrats) remain at the state level and would be willing to advance protections on a state-by-state basis.
Hell, some states may even force local colleges to do the Right Thing and get out of the business of policing students and mandate that *crimes* be addressed by law enforcement and the justice system instead of a bunch of bureaucrats looking to justify their existence.
And maybe in the process of Doing Work (instead of Playing TV Pundit) at the local level, we can start to reclaim the GOP bench from the #MAGA trolls and start to foster the next generation of politicians who are more concerned about getting actual stuff done. Won't be easy, but we're not as powerless as you claim.
I'd like to see the Dems take Romney's child payment plan and run with it: it's simple, easy to understand, and they could always modify the plan to leave TANF in place.
The current plan of a refundable child tax credit with forward payments is complicated.
Continually reporting on Trump in a manner that portrayed him in the worst possible light even knowing it could lead to worse governance did not help matters. Some of your fellow travelers actively urged voting to punish Republicans for electing Trump. Deliberately supporting election of what may well be disastrous administration and legislative bodies is nonsensical. Criticism is justified. Attacking every action is not.