The anti-Trump resistance will fail if we don't ditch establishment Democrats (Civil war?)

The Manchester Guardian ^ | January 31, 2017 | Bhaskar Sunkara

[2ndDivisionVet]

If the last week has shown us anything, it’s that Donald Trump has power, but he doesn’t have much of a mandate yet.

We need to keep it that way – and be wary of the bad political leadership and strategy that can help him build one. November’s election is a powerful reminder that the Clinton establishment’s mix of socially inclusive rhetoric and neoliberal economics is a weak response to xenophobic populism.

An anti-Trump resistance movement must be broad, but it must direct its anger and energy not just at the enemy in the White House, but the failed leadership that let him get there. The Tea Party movement couldn’t have emerged with Bob Dole and George W Bush among their leaders. We can’t build our anti-Trump resistance, settled with generations of unpopular Democratic party leaders either.

The alternative must come from below – and certainly protests like the Women’s March are inspiring starts. Millions marched, many of whom had never attended a political protest before. It was hopefully a sign of things to come. Yet it is crucial that we know what this broad movement is for, as well as what it is against.

For years, myself and others posed a divide in the Democratic party that seemingly existed only notionally: a gap between social democratic demands at the base of the party and technocratic neoliberalism at the top of it. The Sanders campaign made that divide more real and tangible – it stirred a rabid opposition to Clintonism within millions of people, many of them politicized for the first time, and more importantly presented an alternative politics....

[rbg81]

They have to pick Ellison..They’d be “racist” if they didnt

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Yup. Racist AND Islamaphobic. They’ve boxed themselves in.

[a fool in paradise]

She’s a homofascist, she is...

[marktwain]

This is a wonderful movement, and it should be supported.

Split the Democrat party right down the middle. The Sandinistas and the Clintonites should wage total war for control of the party!

It is the only way!!!

[WashingtonSource]

The Communist Guardian strikes again.

[gr8eman]

The only clear statement this guy had was "The alternative must come from below". At least he's honest!

[laplata]

Yep. At about 300 yards.

[CodeToad]

This undermining of Trump is going to continue with all the Obama appointees in government. They will continue to beat the drums of “illegitimacy”. They will continue this coup to claim the government employee do not need to follow “the illegal orders of an illegitimate president”.

[grey_whiskers]

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But they can't sell ads, that'd be *capitalist*. (clucks tongue)

[grey_whiskers]

Well, you *can* rearrange the letters in his name to spell the words

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