Dr Peter Venkman (yeah/nah)

Well, congratulations, Democrats! You've apparently killed Donald Trump, buried his presidency, repealed half the Constitution, and rewritten 250 years of American political history with a single congressional election. Somebody alert the Smithsonian. We've witnessed a fucking miracle. One small problem with your magnificent political funeral: Bill Clinton lost Congress in 1994, survived impeachment, and left office with strong public approval. Barack Obama watched Republicans seize the House and then the Senate, yet continued exercising sweeping executive authority and pursuing his agenda. Apparently, history class was canceled at Democratic headquarters because everybody was too busy measuring Trump's coffin. And the irony is fucking delicious. Republicans spent years discovering that congressional victories didn't automatically neutralize Democratic presidents. Now Democrats are celebrating as though the same constitutional system suddenly operates under an entirely different set of rules whenever Trump occupies the White House. What a breathtaking exhibition of historical amnesia. The presidency retains its executive powers, veto authority, foreign-policy influence, and enormous public platform regardless of which party controls Congress. Those powers have limits, but congressional defeat doesn't magically turn the Oval Office into a fucking broom closet. Then comes the truly hilarious part: Democrats now have to exercise their newfound congressional power without allowing their own ideological ambitions to become a public spectacle. Every investigation, every legislative showdown, every attempt to transform electoral success into an unlimited mandate creates another opportunity for political overreach. Clinton's opponents learned that lesson the hard way. Obama's opponents struggled with it, too. Yet here come the Democrats, absolutely convinced they're too fucking brilliant to repeat history. So keep dancing on Trump's political grave. Pop another bottle. Deliver another smug eulogy. Congratulate yourselves on burying a president who's still sitting in the White House. Just remember one thing about the magnificent political funeral you've organized. You're dancing on a trapdoor, you arrogant bastards. And the mechanism underneath it has been installed by history. (article below)

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