NYTimes: Weakened Democrats Bow to Voters, Opting for Total War on Trump
Earlier---and erroneously---posted in Late Breaking News...
WASHINGTON Reduced to their weakest state in a generation, Democratic Party leaders will gather in two cities this weekend to plot strategy and select a new national chairman with the daunting task of rebuilding the partys depleted organization. But senior Democratic officials concede that the blueprint has already been chosen for them by an incensed army of liberals demanding no less than total war against President Trump.
Immediately after the November election, Democrats were divided over how to handle Mr. Trump, with one camp favoring all-out confrontation and another backing a seemingly less risky approach of coaxing him to the center with offers of compromise.
Now, spurred by explosive protests and a torrent of angry phone calls and emails from constituents and outraged themselves by Mr. Trumps swift moves to enact a hard-line agenda Democrats have all but cast aside any notion of conciliation with the White House. Instead, they are mimicking the Republican approach of the last eight years the party of no and wagering that brash obstruction will pay similar dividends.
Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, vice chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, said there had been a tornado of support for wall-to-wall resistance to Mr. Trump. Mr. Inslee, who backed a lawsuit against the presidents executive order banning refugee admissions and travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, said Democrats intended to send a stern message to Mr. Trump during a conference of governors in the nations capital.
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Historic NY
(37,449 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)Dolt45 doesn't exist in a vacuum, with no support but the force of his own ego. He exists and is functioning because he is pursuing horrible policies that are popular with Republicans in general.
The war has to be against everything the Republicans stand for. Nothing else is good enough.
Otherwise, they'll just relinquish their newly transplanted spines as soon as Dolt45 is gone and Pence is in, pursuing the same horrible policies.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)msongs
(67,409 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)The Democrats are like Charlie Brown. The GOP has signaled since Bush that they won't compromise on ANYTHING.
dhill926
(16,339 posts)the leaders will follow....or something like that...
murielm99
(30,741 posts)We have renewed support and activism. People are hungry for candidates to run in places where they have given up in the past. Even if we do not meet all our goals in one election, I see us taking back institutions in two to four years. The momentum will not stop.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)calling the Dems weakened:
In that respect, it's hard to argue that the Dems haven't been weakened.