US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isn’t fazed by Congress’ failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.
“There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Tuesday.
“There are going to be many, many, many investigations,” she added. “I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.”
Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then? Are we not holding any more elections after that?
There’s plenty of pressure. Just not in the direction you’d prefer.
This was an underreported part of Project 2025, which lead off with a new wave of unscheduled redistricting in red states… leading to the Dummymander of 2026.
There was also the attempt, in 2020, to award EC votes by state legislative fiat rather than statewide popular vote.
But the bottom line is that when you’re winning (and Republicans have had a built in EC / Senate advantage since 1968, thanks to their popularity in smaller rural states) there’s no big incentive to change the rules.
And when you’re losing, there’s no opportunity to change them.
My question was rhetorical. You said there wouldn’t be pressure. There obviously is, including in the direction I prefer. Your doomerism is annoying. People on the left are working to change things. The NPVIC is pretty old, so the pressure from the left has obviously been around for quite a while, and it’s stronger now than ever before.
Once a party actually wins the presidency, pressure drops.
Continue winning?
It’s a recurring pattern in politics. People win and then just forget it’s even possible to lose, until it’s too late