With the progressive “resistance” quiet ahead of Donald Trump’s second term, congressional Democrats are making their own shift: They’re turning away from past portrayals of Trump as a human wrecking ball and toward more potential collaboration.
After ignoring a Republican crackdown on undocumented immigration for months last year, Senate Democrats holstered their filibuster power on Thursday and prepared to work on the bill — which Trump could end up signing into law thanks to their support. Democrats are currently debating whether to also advance a GOP plan to debate sanctions on the International Criminal Court for targeting Israeli leaders with arrest warrants.
On top of that, several Democrats met this week with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Chile is another well-functioning and developed country with a long democratic tradition.
(apart from that one time when the US staged a military coup and installed a murderous fascist regime that abolished democracy and terrorized millions, because the Chileans had dared to vote in a president who aimed to combine a socialist economy with a liberal society, in a free election.)
Quote by Kissinger, national security advisor under Nixon at the time: