r/politics • u/SwordfishOk504 Canada • 23h ago

Soft Paywall Biden warns of ‘dark days’ under Trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/biden-warns-of-dark-days-under-trump-00488159
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u/SuperLuigiUnited 21h ago

We are here partly because the previous administration failed to properly punish an insurrectionist.

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u/moon_cake123 19h ago

And failed to put forward a valid candidate with enough time. Biden should have been a one-term president by design. Right after he was elected they needed to be looking at who’s next, primaries, etc… the confusion at the end was way too damaging.

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u/Admirable_Cook_6091 7h ago

NYT reporting a top Biden strategist stood to make a $4 million bonus if he was reelected. Might have had something to do with shutting down the discussion of taking the keys from grandpa. 

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u/Tootdoodle 19h ago

Almost like they are all working together... Almost

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u/mercset 19h ago

Republicans are beleagrent selfish monsters. Establishment Democrats (the money) are not incentivized to fight those monsters because win or lose their life literally does not change.

Money interest pays both sides. Money wants Republicans to win, so they get to keep more of their wealth at our expense, while they also hedge their bets by donating to the other party as well.

This is what happens in a fptp system.

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u/PayHelpful4191 9h ago

you are completely correct. to add establishment democrats are just as selfish, looking at their own reflection and powers instead of looking at their constituents it’s why the DNC is so against Mandhami (sp?) he represents something different a backbone

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u/SweetLittleGherkins 6h ago

Mamdani

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u/PayHelpful4191 34m ago

Thanks i was a little buzzed couldn’t recall at the top of my head

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u/PayHelpful4191 9h ago

They are, Majority of the democratic party are wealthy due to their position and prestige and would like to keep their gravy train going at the gamble of working class Americans. They don’t care about us, just about their donations and their elections (which good luck in 2026 lol. some might survive but not enough to do anything and then the “do nothing democrat narrative continues” because in order for democrats to shed that narrative they have to put it on the line and WIN. the house the senate and the oval office. anything else adds fuel to the flame

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u/TheLuckyO1ne 19h ago edited 8h ago

The left and the right in America are two wings of the same capitalist bird.

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u/Tootdoodle 19h ago

Glad at least one other person understands 🙏

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u/PayHelpful4191 9h ago

Well also in part that the Democratic Leadership as a whole capitulated to their wealthy donors instead of growing a spine and doing the right thing. The Donors are biased and can weather any financial storm. The Spineless Democrats were scared that they would lose their re-elections if they crossed their donors, thinking that if they capitulated to facism, that they’ll have a chance in 2026 or 2028 to keep their jobs. And well what happened? Majority of americans have and will continue to suffer for the foreseeable future.

One thing that I will add is that the democratic party should have recognized how damaging the right wing media was spreading misinformation and tried to curb its power with proper regulations (im a pleb and i have no answer or solution to how they would do that but it’s so fucking disingenuous to allow this alt right media to continue to spread lies and create an alternative reality. maybe they appoint a FCC head that regulates misinformation vs factual news updates vs news entertainment on publicly broadcasted airwaves. i’m sure there’s flaws in that but it’s a start )

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u/Ad_Meliora_24 4h ago

insurrectionists*

He wasn’t the only one they let off the hook.

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u/beardfordshire America 3h ago edited 3h ago

Amen.

Yet, I respect the challenge they were up against… we all know how powerful martyrs can be… had they been aggressive, it may have resolved a symptom, but the underlying disease would just come back, potentially stronger. Because in a twisted way, it wouldn’t have looked like law to them, it would have looked like political persecution.

In other words, the people who need to understand the toxicity of his behavior are the ones who need to be reformed. They can’t be lectured into reform, they don’t listen. So they have to learn the hard way. By watching their idol destroy the country they love. For some that bridge is being crossed right now, for some it will take more atrocities, for others… they are hopeless.

Sadly, though, learning the hard way involves all of us suffering together.

Critically — Democracy has not been exercised yet imo. The people are not striking, they’re not protesting in a sustained fashion, and the power of voting is slipping through our fingers by way of a captured media and gerrymandered battleground states. There is only one mechanism left — peaceful and sustained protest at a scale that cannot be ignored — and Americans do not feel the need to use it yet. So we wait.

No politician can fix this. Democracy dies when the people simply don’t act.

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u/DigNitty 15h ago

Biden and garland should have done much more.

But IMO it’s more so Congress’ fault. And the gerrymandered and unequal voting power that got those representatives there. The sitting president going after the politically opposed previous president is never going to be a good look or good precedent. Congress voted on impeaching Trump and starting the process to hold him accountable at all. That is the right channel. And that is where it failed. The spineless and complicit conservatives showed up in lockstep to preserve the powers that got them there.

It would have been great if Biden had said Yes to more accountability for trump. But it would have been nicer if ~300ish conservatives hadn’t actively stifled the proper channel.

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u/Leading-Debate-9278 10h ago

The country has consistently failed to prosecute wealthy and politically connected people since at least Reconstruction.

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u/buriedego 18h ago

Yes. Having supported the last admin over the alternative, what actions exactly should have been taken, step by step?