Come January, the GOP will control every elected statewide office in Louisiana after Republicans swept three runoff races for attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer Saturday night.
The GOP success, in a state that has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for the past eight years, means that Republicans secured all of Louisiana’s statewide offices for the first time since 2015. In addition, the GOP holds a two-third supermajority in the House and Senate.
Liz Murrill was elected as attorney general, Nancy Landry as secretary of state and John Fleming as treasurer. The results also mean Louisiana will have its first female attorney general and first woman elected as secretary of state.
Saturday’s election completes the shaping of Louisiana’s executive branch, where most incumbents didn’t seek reelection and opened the door for new leadership in some of the most powerful positions.
You’re absolutely right about not just MAGA Republicans, but just about all Republicans. But at the end of the day, what do the Democrats actually do besides “stop Republicans”? Forgive student loan? Bring peace to the Middle East? Fix healthcare?
“Stop Republicans” is pretty important, but they can’t even do that. So yes, Democrats/neoliberals don’t build shit.
Well Democrats are not a neoliberal bloc, but an alliance of beliefs across the spectrum, so it’s a bad choice to paint them all with one brush. I’d personally love if the Dems were all neolibs, but they do nothing in lockstep.
To try and suggest that Democrats do not have policy goals they pursue is a pretty big stretch. Biden’s admin had several significant policy victories, and yes, they include student loan reform.
The BBB initiative and specifically the Inflation Reduction Act is the single largest green initiative in the nation’s history, with significant manufacturing subsidies, so implying they “aren’t building” makes no sense.
Oh man, you lost me at “I’d personally love if the Dems were all neolibs”. Neoliberals are as much the answer to America’s problems as “classical conservatives” are.
The whole point is that the Democrats have had a public mandate and majority control of the executive and legislative branches multiple times under multiple Democratic presidents in the past century. But what have they actually accomplished besides marginal improvements at best? They can’t even just stop or reverse Republican damage. The bar is higher than just that. They’re absolutely pathetic and can’t do jack fucking shit.