[jfengel]

Thus far I haven't heard Democrats announce any policies about revamping the federal government. They absolutely should, and there are a lot of really obvious targets that would get widespread support, especially if they applied to their own administration. A law that says "Yes, you can prosecute the President" would get Republicans salivating if a Democrat were in office.

Similarly, a law re-asserting Congress' right to declare war. The not-a-war in Iran is not popular, and is probably already illegal. Clarifying that might get Republican support if we told them that it tied the hands of a Democratic President.

When I asked my Congressman about it, he said (very barely paraphrased) "We're gonna run on health care". Which sounds utterly incompetent to me.

[bediger4000]

I personally have come to the conclusion that the Dems should have sacrificed Clinton in 1998-99 so as to set a precedent that presidents must fly right or we'll fire them. Yes, even though Ken Starr and his subordinate Bret Kavanaugh were corrupt, partsan hacks.

My Rep is Lauren Boebert, who is famous, a Qanon, and absolutely incompetent. Let's circle back after primaries to see what changes.

[jfengel]

I can't imagine that it would have helped. Republicans routinely elect gross incompetents and clear offenders of all sorts, and "Clinton got a perfectly legal and consensual blow job two decades ago" is a meaningless excuse. If it weren't him they'd cite someone else, or just make up a fiction, and Boebert is wont to do.

I think ditching Clinton would have been a fine thing to do, but I'm under no illusions that things would be even the slightest bit better today. Republicans have invented themselves a complete fake universe and no precedent matters.