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To a degree. There would've been ways to force it while he still had at least one majority; but what it boils down to for me is 'don't say you're going to do some shit if you're never going to actually do it.' This is why even if he wasn't enslaving my people by the pigload, even if he wasn't letting PDs extrajudically murder us at our workplaces, in these streets, and even in our homes, I'd still never support him.
He's the same kind of liar Drone King Barry was; except even Barry didn't have a pre-presidential history of locking up Black folk, eulogizing klansmen, and erecting Cop Cities during his administration to upkeep and intensify the inherent fascism of this country.
But isn't it obvious that if a presidential candidate promises some legislation, that it is contingent on the legislative branch?
Maybe if you've got all the principle of a used car salesman. Where I'm from, writing checks your ass can't cash results in your ass getting bounced, regardless of the circumstances you were writing it under. I don't make allotments for rich old white men like that.