It doesn’t matter it takes 67 senate votes to convict, he can’t be removed either now or later. The point of the vote was whether Massie gets to make everybody in the House go on record voting whether they support illegally starting two wars, murdering 200 elementary school children, and massacring Caribbean fishermen under no quarter. Which is why a lot of these Democrats sat it out, they were the ones cheering Hegseth on when he did all that shit and don’t want to have to stand by it now that they’ve noticed the peasants are unhappy.

It’s called Medicare for All for branding and because it would be implemented by the Medicare bureaucracy, but all the M4A bills proposed eliminate all the parts and supplements and deductibles and premiums. If they don’t compromise it to death it would be better national healthcare than most of Europe, patients pay literally nothing, taxes are the only source of healthcare funding, private insurance is banned, Medicare covers vision and dental and drugs and ambulances. Depending on the version of the bill for-profit hospitals are illegal because it gets rid of billing codes and Medicare just pays the hospital’s operating budget.

If it was actually happening at the federal level he would oppose it for the exact same reason, “billionaires are going to move out of the US, we can’t tax them unless it’s an international treaty”

Is that why the DNC chair started hyping up Mamdani last year as soon as he won his primary?

The DNC’s actual function is to run the presidential nomination, so right now in a non-presidential year with a Republican president the DNC chair is mostly just a figurehead to hype up the base, and institutional power is with Hakeem Jeffries and the DCCC and Chuck Schumer and the DSCC. That’s why you have a pattern of alternating progressive and centrist DNC chairs. When Democrats lose the presidential election they put in Tom Perez or Ken Martin to keep donations coming and tide them over while they’re out of power, then once there’s a Democratic president they put in Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Jaime Harrison to behead all those who insult Israel.

“DNC” as shorthand for establishment Dems became common back in 2016 when the DNC was very tightly integrated into the Hillary Clinton campaign and was the main conservative power center in the Democratic party. That’s not true all the time but the way power works inside the Democratic party is deliberately swampy and confusing to stop you from putting an easy name to the problem.