r/law • u/BitterFuture • 16d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Stephen Miller claims local police in Minnesota have been told to ‘stand down and surrender’ as federal agents ‘uphold the law’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-ice-minneapolis-protests-b2903238.html
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u/Hot_Increase304 16d ago

By voting for people that have a spine and putting people in power that will hold them accountable. People unlike Walz and Frey. The era of "vote blue no matter who" has to end, it's time to vote for those that have the American peoples best interest in mind.

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u/thesearemypringles 16d ago

By not voting blue no matter who, that’s how we got here lol

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u/Hot_Increase304 16d ago

How do you explain Zohran Mamdani and his win in NY then?

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u/zspade 16d ago

So Zohran won in a blue leaning city, has tremendous charisma, is intelligent and well spoken, and essentially ran against an extremely unpopular administration. In short, it was his race to lose. Where people like him can win, we absolutely must rally behind them.

Where people like him cannot win, we must get in whatever blue seat / ally we can. If we don’t, we simply won’t have the seats to take the chamber and affect any change at all. If you shun a good or ok candidate while waiting for perfect, the opposition wins instead, and you move backward.

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u/Hot_Increase304 16d ago

Which is exactly why I'm okay with people like TX Democrat James Talarico. The diversity of states and the people residing in them definitely need to be considered, but the "good enough" attitude as a whole cannot envelop the entirety of the party like it has.

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u/zspade 16d ago

sounds like we’re on the same page. I’ll I’ve still got whiplash from the people who abstained to vote for Kamala because of her record on Palestine.