This Just In — No more nibbling around the edges. After decades of claiming electoral mandates, the Democratic Party actually has one and they need to move forward with alacrity, but there’s a hard truth that goes with it.
Let’s start with the dictionary, because all the words are there. Merriam Webster says that politics “is the art, science, and process of making collective decisions, managing power, and resolving conflicts within a group or society.”
Envisioning the next two years and especially the next six months, this means that some very substantial legislative achievements will happen, but there’s going to be a footnote of history many of us will have to swallow hard to accept.
There may be multiple instances of landmark legislation in the first two quarters of 2027:
Restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act Repealing the cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act Expanding Medicare substantially and funding rural hospitals Ethics legislation that covers ALL courts in the federal system, including the Supreme Court Federal Court Reform that includes term limits and mandatory retirement Landmark Immigration Reform including the defunding of ICE Restoration of USAID Prohibition of Congress members trading stocks Codifying Roe v. Wade Restoring the Child Tax Credit Reducing maximum interest rates on consumer credit Enforcing the Epstein Accountability Act Defunding the Iran WarThese bills already exist. We aren’t likely to see ALL of these pass into law, but many of them will. The hard pill to swallow is that the signature on these bills will belong to the man with the giant magic marker.
(Photo via AP Photo/Evan Vucci.)
These actions (just a starting list) must happen quickly and do not in any way interfere with the accountability arm of Congress. Passing these will not interfere with the impeachments of the Defense Secretary or the Attorney General.
There is exactly NO concern that if the 47th President gleefully signed every one of them into law, the Democrats might start feeling mushy about the criminal corruption that has gone on for the last two years.
The history books will say of this presidency that any honorable thing that happens from today forward occurred ONLY because of the massive leverage achieved by the American people, who led this rebellion.
The Republicans who will be on the ballot in the next two years would be wise to line up with the Dems until we have a new president, if only to align with the power base in the Congress and possibly keep their jobs.
That said, the giant scribble might very well be on these incoming laws that are righting the ship. Maybe he’ll use the auto pen.
This is what politics IS: a complicated stew of most of what each side wants. We all remember the GOP’s previous record-holder for Most Criminal President – Richard Nixon. His abuse of his office was spectacular at the time and seems quaint compared with the 37 Felony Crypto Criminal.
Our perspective in considering Nixon’s crimes does nothing to erase his very separate achievements as president, most of which preceded his outrageous manipulation of the 1972 election.
It was Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency as a standalone Federal Agency and he signed the Clean Air Act into law.
It was Nixon who negotiated and executed the SALT I and SALT II agreements, beginning the de-escalation of our nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
Those agreements made the world safer. They were important, but they were not enough to negate Nixon’s obscene conduct of the Vietnam war and his illegal acts in the Oval Office, a list too lengthy to include.
He had power and important achievements, but it was never going to make him a secure, confident leader with ethical standards.
We know this. History tells us this.
The electorate has spoken this November. Historians will be engaged for quite some time sorting out the details of what this election means, but the top line message from Maine to Mississippi is pretty clear:
Enough Already.
Jean Bolduc is a freelance writer and is the author of “African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties: An Oral History” (History Press, 2016) and has served on Orange County’s Human Relations Commission, The Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina, the Orange County Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, and the Orange County Schools’ Equity Task Force. She was a featured columnist and reporter for the Chapel Hill Herald and the News & Observer.
Readers can reach Jean via email – jean@penandinc.com and via Twitter @JeanBolduc
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