Will the public think Dems are to blame for this in 2027?

Not like Clinton was so great with the ridiculous "Don't ask, don't tell."

But, with that I learned the big issue with voting third-party - the '92 election split the vote such that Clinton won with a minority vote. I'm not getting into opinions of Clinton here, but regarless it bothered me on principle that we had a president that the majority of voters voted against.

The greatest president we’ve ever had served the will of the people and enacted radical change. He was the architect of Social Security, the 40 hour workweek, and multiple public services. FDR truly prioritized the needs of the people, and he did more for the people than any other the last century at least. If either political party actually prioritized the people, and aggressively worked to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, they’d die in power. 

Can't you say the same thing about Bush in 2000 and Tr*mp in 2016 but for that pesky Electoral College?  But if you are referring to "against," wouldn't every vote not for a specific candidate be a vote against them?

*Actually 1992 is another good example of how the EC screws with the will of the people. Though Clinton won with less than half the popular vote, he had over double the EC votes than Bush did. And even though Perot got nearly 20% of the popular vote, he got absolutely 0 EC votes.

I've already read a number of articles that basically instruct Democrats to remind people that the BBB was championed by Trump and passed by a Republican controlled congress.  Essentially, Democrats had zero to do with all the harm it will cause everyday Americans and that most of its effects were calculated by Republicans to occur after the midterms ostensibly to buttress against negative reactions that could hurt them at the polls.  Whole hell of a lot of good that did them!  

Like everything else about this sometimes very fucked-up country of ours, our form of Government is laughably far from perfect but also seems to be the best one going. Where else could a Trump be so effectively stymied? Yes, it took way too long to do so, and millions of (old, white) people will go to their grave thinking of him as their now-crucified savior. And we've still got two more years of this stupid, racist, vainglorious, unpredictable President to deal with, but hopefully that will be enough time for this revived and realigned Democratic Party to gel and get back to effective government for the people.

I spent most of 2026 doing ground work with my local Democratic Committee. It's about as flighty and chaotic as you might imagine at most times, but at the end they somehow did the job anyway, because of the core adherence to the principles of democracy and humanism. 

Like Michelle McNamara says, "Life is chaos. Be kind."  If you're stumbling around in the dark, you're way better off listening to the timid and querulous offer to work together to find a way through than the booming authoritative one who's absolutely certain that only he can save us.

-C!