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> That’s not how politics works. You can’t abuse a crisis to ram something unrelated down the opposing party’s throat.

This is exactly how it works in practice in the US because the government is in terminal gridlock.

> You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.

The largest political party in the US is the non-voting party. Again, how it works in practice is that almost half of the population is already alienated.

Have you seen the patriot act?

Hell, it was written by the oppositions party current presidential front runner.

Well, we did invade Iraq, so sometimes it works.

Worked with contaminated vape toxicity and the Juul flavor ban.