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The case for ‘giving Trump a chance’ is dead. Too many Democrats are still holding back.


By James Downie

January 26 

History shows us that presidents do, in fact, govern as they campaign, and Trump is doing just that. Add in his tendency to agree with whatever the last person he met with told him, and you have a presidency blending the policies of Mike Pence and Steve Bannon with the temperament and attention span of a toddler banging on his high chair — not the kind of politician that Democrats can or should work with.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-par...5cd59a773b

Everyone knows that Democrats have very little voting power to stop Trump’s mistakes, but that doesn’t mean they have to implicitly smooth the way. Everything should be focused on limiting the damage Trump and the Republicans can do, using political leverage or at least refusing to rubber-stamp Trump nominees and actions to at least slow things down.

To be clear, a message of “we’re not him” is insufficient. Democrats should push their own agenda focused on good jobs and equal rights. Indeed, Schumer and others deserve credit for proposing a specific infrastructure plan that would create real jobs to contrast with the eventual Trump-GOP giveaway to big business.

But whatever shape Democrats’ own policies take, Trump has already proved that he deserves no accommodation.

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