“Democrats should instead be working as hard as possible to change the political environment so they can win in two years.”

This is quaint. It assumes there will be elections in two years, but the party in power is using its power to assure that the opposition won’t be able to contest an election in the future. Suspending habeas corpus, effectively debarring democratic law firms, defining civil protest as domestic terrorism, investigating Act Blue for fraud. All these baby steps point very clearly to the battle lines being drawn. Democrats like Schumer continue to politely play by the rules, biding their time until the inevitable pendulum swing, not realizing that the rules are changing.

We needed different thinking about how to confront Trumpism, but the sclerotic leadership of the Democratic Party has no answers for the change before them.

Where, for example, where is the coordinated attack—performative or otherwise—on the billionaire class? A sneering reference to “the oligarchy” is not enough. Fox News points out Schumer’s hypocrisy when he “worries about the oligarchs”. We know the centrists dependency on the billionaires is the reason for their constraint.

Crossing your fingers for two years is not a real strategy for addressing the change before us.