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NYT Op-Ed Shows Why Voters Worried About Affordability Should Be Wary Of Democrats

The affordability shtick is nothing more than a campaign myth.

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For Americans considering voting Democrat because they want cheaper groceries and lower gas prices, a New York Times op-ed offers a warning about what a Democrat victory would actually deliver: another round of get-conservatives lawfare, resource-squandering impeachment witch hunts, and performative stonewalling of Trump’s judicial nominees.

Democrats have spent months positioning themselves as the answer to Americans’ affordability concerns. But voters — particularly independents, moderates, and frustrated Republicans — should pay attention to what Democrats say they would actually do with control of Congress.

Writing for the Times, Jamelle Bouie says if Democrats win back the House and Senate, they “would have an opportunity not just to check the Trump administration but to neuter it: to halt the confirmation of new judges, to block the president’s attempts to appoint more unqualified toadies to key offices and to focus the investigative fire of both chambers on every aspect of this White House.”

Bouie all but salivates at the prospect of lawfare, writing, “Should Democrats find the will to do so, they could launch the kind of full-court press that no president has faced from the opposition since Barack Obama had to contend with a Republican Congress in the last two years of his administration. The difference is that Democrats will have real corruption and malfeasance to work with.”

Bouie also warns Democrats against imagining they can have a “constructive relationship … with either Trump or the Republican Party over the next two years.” Instead, Bouie suggests Democrats wield “the full suite of Congress’s powers to constrain the president and restore constitutional government.”

In a lot more words than needed, Bouie is arguing........

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