No. of Recommendations: 6
What’s your Clintonite strategy of resistance? Hope John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett save democracy (if Trump doesn’t ignore them)? Cross your fingers for McConnell and three or four others see the light and vote to save the union?
Trump is already targeting Act Blue and democratic aligned law firms as adjuncts to terrorism. What’s your plan?
Win back the House in the midterms. Get out there and change voters' minds about what the GOP is doing - especially among Black and Hispanic men, especially among young men. Engage in politics the way that the GOP did when they were facing a Democratic trifecta - attack the Administration for things you dislike, cross the aisle when appropriate, and get out there and make your case to the voters through incessant and continual outreach to voters.
Voting down the CR isn't "resistance." It's a thing the Democrats could have done, but it wouldn't have accomplished anything useful - any more than the little signs and Al Green's tirade did. It would only damage their own party and the people they claim to want to help (users of government services) - and would have put Trump in a better position than he is today.
Is that satisfying? No! It sucks to be in the minority of a trifecta. It sucks when the opposing party gets to control the agenda, write all the bills, control the Executive, and do whatever they want that doesn't need to surmount a filibuster. But the way to "resist" that is to win elections - not engage in a circular firing squad within the party after you've lost, because one faction is unwilling to damage the party's prospects further in order to make another faction have better "feels."
