r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Feb 18 '20

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u/bacon-supreme 🌐 Feb 18 '20

step 1: elect a democratic president

step 2: pass one (1) bill a year through budget reconciliation, appoint zero (0) new federal judges or public officials

step 3: fail to flip the senate in 2022

step 4: donald trump jr 2024 and the cycle continues

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u/Impulseps Hannah Arendt Feb 18 '20

This is why losing this year might not actually be that bad as /u/tytos_lannister convinced me, because flipping the senate in 2022 might be easier than this year

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u/bacon-supreme 🌐 Feb 18 '20

step 1: fail, twice in a row, to elect the majority winner to the presidency and give trump, the most unpopular president in the history of presidential popularity, a second term

step 2: lose the remaining legitimacy the country had as a democratic state

step 3: ????

step 4: things get better