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.