The few lawmakers who held town halls this summer faced voters furious with Republicans about Trump’s agenda and with Democrats for not doing enough to fight back.
With political tensions running high, the vast majority of congressional lawmakers steered clear of town halls this summer. The handful who entered the lion’s den were met with boos, jeers and tense confrontations.
President Donald Trump and the Republicans may have full control of Washington, but protesters spared neither political party. At 25 town halls across the country that were viewed or attended by NBC News this summer, voters pressured Democrats to deploy more aggressive tactics as they battle Trump and took them to task over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Republicans faced hostile crowds over their support for Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” his nationwide immigration crackdown and Trump’s deployment of federal forces to Washington, D.C., in what he has called an effort to crack down on crime.
That always gets me with these kinds of comments too. It’s like they are telling us we deserve this because we voted for it but almost half of the people that voted wanted something else. That’s a whole lot of people who didn’t want it.
I guess when you are talking to the void on the Internet you can aim your anger at whoever you want. We are just caught in the cross hairs
If the dems didn’t bomb civilians they might had won. Their opposition was a rapist
And it’s not like it’s going to be much better depending where you live in a lot of countries that are democracies(itself not so great under capitalism). Like what happened in the USA can happen and did happen in other countries to especially where fascist and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise.
This Perspektive also ignores bigger causes like media companies, systems of opression, political campaigns, lobbying groups and we’ll people in power protecting their interests as well as the state, that can form and influence what becomes public opinion. And we’ll far right fascist groups and their billionaires building this up for quite a while now.
Point being these developments are complicated and blaming the average American for trump’s victory ignores the larger picture especially when you see people from Europe calling Americans stupid and thinking that an authoritarian takeover could never happen here in western eurooe. To that where just a few years behind but it is a very real possibility.
The people that sat out the process canceled out the people who didn’t want it and you can be mad at my comment or mad at the system for letting this happen.
I’m not mad at anyone. It is what it is.
Things could be different, but they’re not.