Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they'd now oppose her in the wake of Trump's aggressive deportation plans and last week's incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.

“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”

Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.

  • @Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•23 hours ago

    Okay, and? Where did I ever give the impression that I had any sort of respect or confidence in them to think that they could protect anyone, even themselves. Was it that confidence inspiring phrase of hoisting another turd of a campaign over the Finish Line just to block the fascist?

    Yes, they and Republicans both helped to march us to this cliff. How does jumping off the cliff help us? How did it help anyone.

    It’s seriously not worth engaging with them as a party. We need to take power back from the national parties at local levels across the country. But their dead weight can still be useful. Even if it’s just inertia to slow a slide into complete collapse.

    • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
      3•23 hours ago

      You’re relitigating the past. You might as well blame dem voters rather than others if you’re going to do that. We are in year one of Trump’s term. We should all be going full blast on how complicit the democrats are with all of this shit. We should all be shouting at dems how fucking garbage we think their policies are, and how we won’t be wasting our time voting for them. We should be clear about what we want, and what we won’t accept. And all that is only really for people that have any hope for that party.

      • @Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•23 hours ago

        Why? Everyone knows Democrats are shit. How is continuing to attack them going to achieve anything? We need to be the ones to actually offer something better and viable more broadly.

        • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
          3•22 hours ago

          If you’re still engaging with them politically, it seems like you should be attacking them in order to force them to take popular positions. If you’re just going to vote blue no matter who, then you have zero political influence.