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In reply to the discussion: Heather Cox Richardson: "a change afoot in the Democratic Party" [View all]lees1975
(6,867 posts)Biden was in office four years. For two of those four years, he had a Congressional majority. What did that majority accomplish toward preventing a charged criminal from running again? Why didn't he can Merrick Garland who was doing nothing to move Trump's insurrection trial and stolen documents trial forward?
Why did he stand in the way of Senators breaking the filibuster in order to amend the judiciary act and pack the court when that was clearly the solution to the whole Trump mess? Why not pack the court, ensuring that they expedited Trump's trials, maybe even took them on themselves, and adjudicated the indictments, branding him as an Insurrectionist, making him ineligible for runnning again? If he was an existential threat to democracy, as they kept insisting, then why not do whatever it took, risky as it might be, to make sure he was convicted and jjailed?
So yes, he must share some of the blame. He had the power to stop it and sat on protocol and tradition and wouldn't do it.
Absolutely NOT absurd.