I understand Dems couldn't trust McCarthy. But them nominating (and voting, was it?) a Dem who has no chance of becoming Speaker was just... irresponsible. And as a result of this kind of Dems' poor negotiation even with relatively moderate Republicans, the House elected this MAGAt.

(I think I read Dems called for Republicans to vote for their Dem candidate... If that's true then that's like an elementary school level incident in my eyes.)

[–] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they repeatedly mentioned moderate Republicans they'd be willing to nominate and repeatedly tried to get the "moderate" Republicans to work with them to nominate a republican.

The Republicans were the ones who didn't want to negotiate, not the Democrats.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

I know Rs were worse. I know they are a BAD and EVIL. I still want Ds to do better.