In classic Democratic Party fashion we get "outraged" and "raise hell" -after- the results of our complacency and disorganization bear fruit.
As another commenter said above, Democratic lack of foresight and strategy resulted in us losing a critical race four years ago that today would have been deciding in our favor as these people try t…
In classic Democratic Party fashion we get "outraged" and "raise hell" -after- the results of our complacency and disorganization bear fruit.
As another commenter said above, Democratic lack of foresight and strategy resulted in us losing a critical race four years ago that today would have been deciding in our favor as these people try to steal this election from Riggs.
It would be unethical but frankly Riggs should not recuse herself from this case. It's time to start playing hardball. We all know if the shoe was on the other foot the conservative would not recuse. Her conservative colleagues have every incentive to want more substantial majority in their own court. She is not facing impartial people anyway.
Then there is the bizarre fact that NC voters turned away Mark Robinson and handed the AG and LTGovs office to Democrats but failed to do so in the same numbers for a liberal incumbent SC Justice all the while voting for Trump and defeating the Democratic Auditor incumbent.
NC is a very strange state electorally.
Add this to another race where Democratic engagement may have not handed us enough of a margin to overcome such obstacles. Or how about the ones that we outright actually lost by close margins and have come back to haunt us?
2016 Missouri senate
2018 Florida senate.
2018 Florida Gov
2018 Texas senate
2022 Wisconsin senate
2024 Pennsylvania senate
And then the king of them all:
2016 Presidential which would have given us liberal control of the Supreme Court (or in the event of Republican obstruction likely at least a much more moderate one if compromise had to be made between Clinton and McConnell)
At every turn Democratic complacency results in future failure. We are reaping the results of those seeds now in NC.
There is one thing I disagree with you on: a Republican majority in the Senate would have blocked all Supreme Court nominations, just like they blocked Garland's nomination.
In classic Democratic Party fashion we get "outraged" and "raise hell" -after- the results of our complacency and disorganization bear fruit.
As another commenter said above, Democratic lack of foresight and strategy resulted in us losing a critical race four years ago that today would have been deciding in our favor as these people try to steal this election from Riggs.
It would be unethical but frankly Riggs should not recuse herself from this case. It's time to start playing hardball. We all know if the shoe was on the other foot the conservative would not recuse. Her conservative colleagues have every incentive to want more substantial majority in their own court. She is not facing impartial people anyway.
Then there is the bizarre fact that NC voters turned away Mark Robinson and handed the AG and LTGovs office to Democrats but failed to do so in the same numbers for a liberal incumbent SC Justice all the while voting for Trump and defeating the Democratic Auditor incumbent.
NC is a very strange state electorally.
Add this to another race where Democratic engagement may have not handed us enough of a margin to overcome such obstacles. Or how about the ones that we outright actually lost by close margins and have come back to haunt us?
2016 Missouri senate
2018 Florida senate.
2018 Florida Gov
2018 Texas senate
2022 Wisconsin senate
2024 Pennsylvania senate
And then the king of them all:
2016 Presidential which would have given us liberal control of the Supreme Court (or in the event of Republican obstruction likely at least a much more moderate one if compromise had to be made between Clinton and McConnell)
At every turn Democratic complacency results in future failure. We are reaping the results of those seeds now in NC.
There is one thing I disagree with you on: a Republican majority in the Senate would have blocked all Supreme Court nominations, just like they blocked Garland's nomination.
looking behind is not helpful unless lessons are learned; still not sure that we have learned anything, but Trump will be helpful imo