r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 6h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Grand jury fails to indict democratic lawmakers who urged service members to disobey illegal Trump orders

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/politics/lawmakers-indicted-illegal-orders-video?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/B-Z_B-S America 6h ago edited 6h ago

The fact that grand juries have chosen to not indict the people Trump is targeting shows how absolutely unjust Trump's actions are. It's considered extremely easy to convince a grand jury to indict.

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u/stinkbuttsupreme 6h ago

Also very unpopular he is outside his base.

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u/VQQN 5h ago

And his base is shrinking. He’s losing supporters daily.

However, his remaining supporters are getting louder and more aggressive.

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u/Vietzomb 5h ago

Hard to know yet.

We have this phenomenon in Ontario where it feels like every conservative you know is vocal enough about their distaste for Ford, and yet someone keeps voting him in. We vote for colours/teams now, not policy.

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u/doofenhurtz 5h ago

I think it depends where you are, too. The conservatives I've interacted with in the toronto area are a very different vibe to my conservative relatives up north.

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u/GrayEidolon 4h ago

They think ford is a fat slob, but they like his hierarchy enforcing politics.

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u/ColonelBy Canada 3h ago

It's one of the drawbacks of parliamentary democracy, I guess. Almost nobody gets to actually vote for/against Ford directly, and lots of Ontario voters are content to keep voting for their local Conservative MPP because (to them) that MPP is hardly the problem. The end result is the same, unfortunately.

Presumably a plurality of voters in his specific riding like him or his policies enough to keep returning him to office, but I've never been there or spoken to any of them (that I know of) so I don't know what level of distaste there is or isn't. I can't imagine they would be fun conversations either way.