US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isnāt fazed by Congressā failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.
āThere are so many criminals in this administration, itās hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,ā Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNNās Manu Raju on Tuesday.
āThere are going to be many, many, many investigations,ā she added. āI imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.ā
Youād need a Democrat in the White House to do that. At that point, thereās no longer pressure to reform the EC.
Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then? Are we not holding any more elections after that?
Thereās plenty of pressure. Just not in the direction youād prefer.
This was an underreported part of Project 2025, which lead off with a new wave of unscheduled redistricting in red statesā¦ leading to the Dummymander of 2026.
There was also the attempt, in 2020, to award EC votes by state legislative fiat rather than statewide popular vote.
But the bottom line is that when youāre winning (and Republicans have had a built in EC / Senate advantage since 1968, thanks to their popularity in smaller rural states) thereās no big incentive to change the rules.
And when youāre losing, thereās no opportunity to change them.
Continue winning?
Itās a recurring pattern in politics. People win and then just forget itās even possible to lose, until itās too late