Jfc. Lol. If you don't think this administration and their messaging has played a role in how terribly this country has handled a global pandemic, then you have bigger problems than Covid to worry about.
Of course they've played a role. That's not the point, I'm saying the system is set up so you can fundamentally challenge that role beyond making excuses if you use leverage. That's the entire point of opposition parties within the framework of how the system is set up, no one will get everything they want but it's designed to get major concessions if you act in opposition to the other sides top interests.
They have even more power now. The blues miraculously retained the house, the senate is close and there are a few reds in the senate 100% willing to play hardball on foreign intervention, against large financial conglomerates and support stimulus payments.
So, tell the public, donors, et cetera, make concessions on a serious COVID relief package with employee protections (temp moratorium on firing ie voluntary lockdown) and monthly stimulus payments or else.....
This gives the blue president elect a mountain of leverage. All he has to do is, not even nominate, leak or go public with a list of supposed nominations for the administration who will fundamentally oppose red donor interests. Float former or current military leaders critical of current and past interventions for secretary of defense. You'll have CEO's in the defense industry on the phone so fast heads would roll, just having a level headed voice in that position for 4 years would freak them out. Float a hawkish financial regulator to head the treasury. Again, they'd **** their pants and the ball would be completely in the blues' court to demand serious concessions on COVID legislation. Party donors and bosses would sure as **** turn on their ears to throwing crumbs at the public then.
That's it, at the very least just scare the opposition with some rhetoric so you can actually make demands with power in your pocket.
Of course, that's the opposite of what has happened, nominations floated are mostly industry cronies and the actual opposition to them is not out of principle, but because some of them don't like the red team. That's it. Nominations, a powerful tool, are not being used to broker power.
So, again, they have no cards to play because they
voluntarily to do not act as an opposition. They simply ask the boogeyman to be nice when it's convenient, then blame the boogeyman when he's not nice. No one is pitting power against power.
