A Republican President, who doesn’t care about rules, regs or qualification’s…
A guy with a loyal following….
Democrats feeling lost….
Their way abandoned by hoards of voters ….
Media foaming at the mouth outh over every Trump breath….
What to Do?
Hard Left turns ain’t making it right now…..
Democrats will have to be patient…
Donald Trump cancelled his own ticket last time…..
For much of the past decade, Democratic politics has revolved around opposing Donald J. Trump.
But as he prepares to return to the White House again on Monday, some Democrats are exploring a different approach: carefully calibrated stabs at the idea of coexistence.
In some of the nation’s most liberal bastions, mayors and state officials are emphasizing quality-of-life problems close to home — and insisting they want to work with the incoming administration.
On Capitol Hill, dozens of Democrats voted with Republicans to take a harder line on some undocumented immigrants, and Democratic senators released a video declaring that “we are not here because of who we are against.”
And prominent Democratic governors are highlighting areas of potential agreement, while also signaling that they have some policy red lines. As Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan put it in a speech on Wednesday, “I won’t go looking for fights. I won’t back down from them, either.”…..
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It also reflects how the anti-Trump fervor that was manifested in mass protests and shaped popular culture has given way to political disillusionment and burnout in left-leaning circles, at least for now.
And while Mr. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, some are grappling with the fact that he narrowly won it in November, in part by cutting into Democrats’ traditional constituencies. A Gallup poll last month found more Americans approving of Mr. Trump’s handling of his transition than at around the same time eight years earlier, though those numbers still significantly trailed other recent presidents-elect….
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Once he does, the policies he and the Republican Congress pursue may well prompt the kind of broad backlash that propelled Democrats to many of their victories over the last eight years and create new pressures on elected Democrats to oppose him wherever possible.
Honeymoon periods never last, and for Mr. Trump — an exceptionally polarizing leader in a closely divided country — it could be especially short.
Efforts to check Mr. Trump are also already underway from a range of Democratic state officials and advocacy groups, especially in blue states, while Democrats from more conservative areas, too, have cautioned against over-reading the election results….
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