Well?
Maybe the Democratic lawmakers staying mute HAS worked?
Did All these ‘protestors’ show up and actually VOTE for Kamala Harris ?
Or did they stay home?
Now?
Are these ‘protestors’ going to come out and vote in the Special Electrons coming up?
Will they be whipped up come Next November?
Cause?
THAT IS what COUNTS….
And making noise now IS good to push their lawmakers….
Their party IS in the courts, starting their fight against Musk, DOGE and Trump….
Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents mobbed a half-dozen Western state events held last week by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) — with more than 30,000 people filling Denver’s Civic Center Park on Friday evening. At town halls organized by liberal activists and Democratic Party officials in the congressional districts of the most vulnerable Republicans, rank-and-file voters have decried the enormous influence of billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s top donor, as he vows to cut $1 trillion or more from the federal budget….
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But pinning hope on a distant election has provided little comfort to Democratic voters who are watching Trump’s blitz of executive orders and his attacks on the judiciary with horror. In dozens of interviews at recent Democratic events, voters said their party leaders need to show a much greater sense of urgency — and have a plan to stop Trump and Musk’s mass layoffs of federal workers, the attempted shutdown of the Education Department, and potential cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and other entitlement programs.
“I want them to know that if they stand up, we’ll stand with them,” said Valerie Hicks, a retired social worker from Las Vegas who attended the Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez rally in North Las Vegas. “You won’t be out there on a cliff — and maybe you are, but sometimes the cliff is where you have to be.”
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When asked to offer an assessment of the state of the Democratic Party at recent events, many attendees used words such as “weak” and “lame.” There was a broad agreement that it was time for the party’s “old guard” — namely Schumer and other Democrats who hold out hope for compromise with Republicans — to move on, as well as a sense that the party is not matching the speed and aggression of Trump’s tactics.
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Democratic Party leaders argue that they are doing everything they can to fight Trump’s agenda. Democratic attorneys general, along with unions and civil rights groups, have filed about 120 lawsuits thus far. They have succeeded in at least temporarily halting some of Trump and Musk’s actions — including an attempted freeze on federal grants and loans and the efforts of Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing Americans’ sensitive data at the Social Security Administration and other agencies….
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Ken Martin, who was elected as chair of the Democratic National Committee six weeks ago, has described his mission as fighting back against “Trump’s war on working people.”
He has embarked on his “organizing everywhere” tour to show that the party is focused on fielding candidates and winning offices up and down the ballot in all 50 states, including local nonpartisan offices that the party has not previously contested. The DNC — in partnership with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Association of State Democratic Committees — has held 60 town halls in GOP districts in recent weeks and is about halfway to its goal of holding at least one in every state.
While acknowledging the anger, Martin argues that the party has been aggressive in its litigation strategy against Trump and pointed to the six-figure investments the party made in upcoming special elections in Wisconsin and Florida…..
image…People attend a town hall with Khanna in Anaheim, California, on Sunday….Philip Cheung/For The Washington Post..
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