Democratic War
The NYTimes has a story about the grassroots demanding Democratic officeholders opt for "total war" on Trump and his administration. But here's a key point the article misses entirely.
The anger and confrontation being demanded by Democratic voters is partly a reaction to Trump and an all GOP Congress. But that hostility and frustration is also aimed at lackey Democratic officials who showed an in ability and, indeed a passivity, to Republican opposition and intransigence to Obama during his administration (and of Obama's passivity itself, too).
Unspoken in the Times article is any mention of Merrick Garland that was the most recent but perfect example of GOP efforts to block, delegitimize, and derail Democratic initiatives - all with barely a peep of objection by Democratic lawmakers.
Indeed, having seen their Supreme Court nomination summarily ignored in unprecedented fashion, a nationalistic bigoted buffooon in the White House, and sweeping efforts to repeal swaths of the progressive progress during the Obama years, congressional Democrats - the surrender wing of the party - were fully prepared to play ball with Trump, Ryan, and McConnell before the grassroots rose in deafening protest.
That crying need for a backbone - so conspicuously absent from the Democratic posture for the past eight years - is as as much of the story about the grassroots uprising as it is about protesting Trump.
