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In reply to the discussion: 'President Pelosi' Trends on Twitter After Donald Trump Suggests Delaying the Election [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the 117th house as its members, Democratic and Republican, elected their new speaker.
This January, as in 2016, there simply is no comparable alternative to Nancy Pelsoi, America's highest ranking woman in history. Speaker Pelosi's described as running her strongly united caucus like a machine, both against the Republicans and in creating important new legislation that must wait for January 3 to start being passed into law.
Out here, there'd be such outrage against anyone who'd try-try-again to sabotage liberal Democratic leadership, under Pelosi or anyone else, that they'd have even less power to make trouble. After all, we're all living with the consequences of their cumulative hostile actions over the entire 2015-2016 election period. Sympathy is...lessened.
And of course, Senator Sanders himself is currently united with Pelosi's and Schumer's liberal Democrats to run Republicans out of power. So I suspect most of those who tried to defeat Pelosi in 2016, like the blue dog #FiveWhiteMen group and the Quad-cum-Trid and others helped to office by the anti-Democratic JD/Brand New Congress, would largely content themselves with a few dissident speeches to their followers.