disregardable@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
They really will not be able to. He has fired 75-90% of many agencies’ employees. This is going to take decades fix, and every election we lose will extend that.
If they decide to man up and get shit done, then they will get it done.
It is not and never has been a question of whether they can. It’s a question of whether they want to.
Democrats aren’t weak. They actively work towards limp, useless results. They strategically use their power to appear weak and useless, on purpose. They’re sort of like sloth demons.
There’s also the fact that there’s an enormous machine of conservative think tanks and funding groups and PACs and corporations that will fight every and any change tooth and nail. The obvious ones like abolishing ICE? They’re an enormous source of revenue for dozens of companies, from tech to defense, not to mention that private prison companies are running the concentration camps. They’d need to be ready to effectively run things as a true dictator in order to get anything done, because large portions of the economic sphere have been retooled to rely on things continuing the way they are.
garth@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The executive branch also appoints people to hundreds of positions (with approval of the Senate). Federal judges in particular have lifetime terms per the Constitution. This is absolutely a generational mess.