How can the Democratic Party effectively neuter the Republican Party so they can’t cause any more damage?

It's a long, long list, and it basically consists of Congress reclaiming power they gave up in the 1960s and 70s.

Executive Appointments Reform Act - Limit or remove the president's authority to unilaterally fire Executive Branch appointees confirmed by the Senate, absent due process.

Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Part II - Limit the president's power to appoint "acting" officials to administer more than one federal department, and remove the ability to place multiple agencies under the control of a single Senate-confirmed individual on an acting basis. No more "Scott Bessett, Treasury Secretary and acting head of CFPB/IRS/PBS/FEMA."

District of Columbia Home Rule Act, Part II - Remove the President's power to federalize the DC police force absent a state of emergency declared by BOTH the DC Council and both houses of Congress.

Impoundment Control Act, Part II - Remove/restrict the President's power to unilaterally adjust funding already appropriated by Congress, say to no more than a 5% reduction in the appropriated amount. Deeper recissions only possible by an act of Congress.

Simple, if they take the house and the senate, then impeach the son of a bitch.

Legalize quaaludes!

No they can’t remove a President without 2/3 of the Senate. which Democrats will never have, Stop with the symbolic gestures. They already impeached him twice and that did shit to stop him.

R2 That doesn’t fix the problem long term. That fixes the immediate problem, but if guardrails aren’t put in place it will happen again.

They can pass laws to hobble the President but without 60:votes in the Senate it will be tough.

The military could always pull a “Romania” and take Donald and Melania out back and shoot them. And as an added bonus, they could turn Melania’s vagina and asshole into a fleshlight for the next democratic president to use.

can we finagle a way to get Puerto Rico and D.C. admitted as States, Macht Schnell?

I had a terrible thought. We always wonder why Congress is so passive about Trump.

Trump is mobbed up from way back. And blackmail is an old weapon of theirs. Maybe Trump has enough blackmail on them that he essentially neutered them. The Senator mentioned retaliation "cryptically."

R7 That’s all she’s good for anyways.

R9 if that is true, then that would have to mean that every Republican member of Congress has had dealings with the mob. Otherwise, the mob would not have any material with which to blackmail them.

They can push for policies that reduce social and economic segregation —there’s a new “Jim Crow” in the land, and Democrats are missing the forest for the trees.

A review of a few hundred “leading” Americans found that more than half went to just 30+ universities . We are self-sorting ourselves into a decline and fall.

R2, they did that twice, it did nothing

This should be sufficient.

A piece of the problem

Many of us here are guilty, as charged

How about Democrats actually showing up to vote in non-presidential elections the way Republicans do? Or not sitting out elections because the party's nominees don't tickle their clit.

R17 the problem is that the mentality of a lot of the Democratic Party, especially with younger voters, is “he misgendered so and so, I’m not voting for him.” They’ll find some niche, absolutely ridiculous reason not to vote.

R8 What makes you think Puerto Rico would automatically go anti-Trump? The current Governor of Puerto Rico, who advocates for becoming the 51st state, is considered a Trump ally.

You don’t get internal PR politics do you? It doesn’t track the mainland. Review the history of voting re statehood v. Independence v, commonwealth

R19 She deserves the face she has.

R18, you’re so right. For example, Loomer is obviously crazy but if a Dem called her nuts the Dem would be criticized for attacking the neurodivergent community. It’s kind of hopeless to be a Dem right now.

That is why i like Walz, he simply called them “weird”. Clearly a subjective statement, but a worthy one basically above reproach

R23 Politics is Jerry Springer now. You have to go low when they go low. Newsom is good at that.

We need to start pushing for major democracy reforms--laws against gerrymandering, campaign finance reform, same day voter registration, term limits on Congress and SCOTUS, a national popular vote, proportional representation, and statehood for DC and Puerto Rico. Breaking California up into multiple states should even be on the table. Not all of these things will be achievable but we still need to start pushing them.

None of them are feasible. Put down the pipe.

Bitch like hell about how they don't give a fuck about you.

r23 You're right, calling them weird did wonders for us in November, we should definitely do more of that!

Fuck me.

‘I don’t think you can reason with Repugs. About anything. So I think we wait til it gets so bad that we have to revolt. Together.

We should have expanded the Supreme Court and at least tried for DC statehood, but cunts Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema wouldn't have it (in addition to the institutionalists like Biden) because of the stupid Senate filibuster.

Expand the Supreme Court.

[quote]That is why i like Walz, he simply called them “weird”.

A problem with that is that it backfired, bigtime. Democrats cheer tactics that they find amusing and don't seem to care if they are effective (and even detrimental) with swing voters.

OP would rather indulge in her neutering fantasy that deal with the actual issue at hand for Democrats:

There needs to be a constitutional convention - everything needs to be changed from the ground up. Including making voting compulsory.

The Democrats need a glow up!

by mercilessly and relentlessly mocking Dump and his supporters....in the manner Gavin Newsom is currently doing on X... Laughing at Dump is kryptonite for him..

R36 although I’m not entirely sure how this helps. Sure it pisses off Trump, but I don’t know how it takes power away from Republicans. It’s not like that’s gonna make his base suddenly hate him.

[quote]by mercilessly and relentlessly mocking Dump and his supporters....in the manner Gavin Newsom is currently doing on X... Laughing at Dump is kryptonite for him..

Yes, wasn't it great how the overwhelming amount of merciless and relentless mocking of Dump and his supporters kept him from being elected president in 2016 and 2024?

Do you even believe the stuff you write?

r38 you willfully misunderstand that I am referencing (Gavin Newsom's expert mimic of Dump's crazy tweets) and NOT the usual calling him Dump, Shitller etc..by those that hate him.

I get it.. love makes us do the craziest things

Perhaps if the OP's question didn't call for enforced sterilization....

R39 and how is Gavin Newsom making fun of him helping?

[quote]Perhaps if the OP's question didn't call for enforced sterilization....

Totalitarianism is necessary to save democracy, or something.

Fill Melania’s vagina with gasoline and light ‘er up.

There's not enough gas on the planet to fill that cavern R43.

I think the cult of Trump has pretty much neutered the Republican party. They have abandoned every single principle and position they ever claimed to hold. They had to in order to defend Donald Trump, because at some point they decided that the party stands for whatever Donald Trump says at any given moment.

Once the midterms are over the next two years are going to be gearing up for the next presidency.

They could have easily neutered the republican party and changed the entire world for the better just by making sure that the president and the republican politicians who helped incite the insurrection were prosecuted for their crimes - some of the most serious crime to ever happen on American soil. But it's the democrats. They're pathetic pussies. They've been pathetic pussies who allow the republicans to run circles around them for the past 50 years.

They knew trump would destroy democracy and they did NOTHING to stop it. NOTHING. Not a fucking thing

They want 9-5 jobs. The extent of their fighting back is posting mean tweets. Their entire strategy is crossing their fingers and hoping for a bigger turn out than ever before. That's it. They are nothing more than organized opposition. The fact that they lost to donald fucking trump, TWICE, tells you everything.

The democrats are NEVER, EVER going to do any of that R1

They're content with how the government is

The republicans are always able to do whatever the hell they want, while the democrats are happy to be neutered, weak and practically useless.

It will take years to repair the damage cheeto has done. Are there people who are actually keeping a list of the things he's destroying so that they can be fixed?

One of the problems is that there's a lot of professional politica types and bureacrats that liked the situation that led to Trump 2.0 and just want to go back to 2024. The US needs significant changes to get to a legitimately good place with a solid future and that is going to require new blood (in all parties, really, but the Democrats are what we're discussing here). But in reality, such a major housecleaning would likely only happen by something like a crazy revolution by a bunch of far leftists who don't know what they're doing, and which would lead to its own economic and global turmoil, as well as mass death and so forth.

What's needed is strong action by people who aren't corrupt, but who are also sane and competent. People who want to make massive changes, but who don't want to toss it all out. Good luck finding enough of those people to put in power. Dark times.

Adding on to my post at r50, I'd point out that taking back power in 2026 isn't enough. You can't even boot Trump out unless you have a huge two-thirds of the vote to convict/boot him out in the Senate and the Democrats are not getting that many seats. Simple majority only applies to the House when it comes to impeachment. So, he will still be in there fucking everything up.

Congress could and should try to take back more of its power of course. But that's going to be a mess with him still as president.

They can’t do a damn thing until there’s a Dem president. Or unless they win 2/3 of the House and Senate next year.

One successful assassination attempt would put an end to all of this misery.

We were just making nice calling them weird. We know what they really are. If the “swing” voters get offended by that they were never going to be ours anyway.

R47 Merrick Garland was the worst possible pick for Attorney General. Such a spineless wimp.

Republicans are so enslaved to Trump’s delusion of a third term that they’ve abandoned even the pretense of independence. DeSantis’s humiliating collapse was proof. This isn’t a political party anymore, it’s a cult of weakness and submission.

Has anyone ever interviewed Garland to ask him why he waited too long to investigate?

MAGA Merrick seems to have gone radio silent. Most other AGs would have gone on 60 Minutes or some other show by now. Maybe he realizes that he gave us Trump 2.0 and is ashamed.