Posted on 02/12/2017 7:42:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump's shocking victory in November and the tumultuous beginning of his presidency have shattered many assumptions about American politics.
For many liberals and progressives, the weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration have been filled with soul-searching and even confusion about their place in American politics.
Trump’s flurry of executive orders, coming in quick succession on matters ranging from federal employment and immigration to reorganizing the National Security Council, have driven deep division within the Democratic party. The reaction to Trump’s action have pitted pragmatic, center-left politicians against protesting activists forming “The Resistance.”
Many Democratic disagreements with Trump’s executive orders are valid and there is a clear opportunity for opposition to Trump on the basis of their faults and flaws.
However, if Democrats want to win back power they cannot do so by moving further left, resisting Trump at every move, and taking to the streets.
Put simply, the Democratic Party is on life support and there is a quiet, but ruthless, war being fought over its future....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
...been saying that for at least 6 months...
IF TRUMP WINS THE DNC WILL COLLAPSE
The Democrats need to really push socialism.
They could go door-to-door and tell everyone which turnip commune they have been assigned to.
That’s the trick!
If this keeps up - the democrats are going to get absolutely crushed in 2018.
As in a filibuster proof senate...
Let them consume themselves. Bypass the fools and let them kill each other off.
“...Many Democratic disagreements with Trump’s executive orders are valid...”
Name one, FOX....
This doesn’t even take into account that President Trump is actively trying to drive a wedge between different groups in the democrat coalition and peel away more democrats.
The opinion was written by a Dem pollster. I would not expect the piece to be unbiased.
It's only a "quiet war" because the fake-news MSM won't cover it.
I haven’t heard a single democrat denounce the Berkley riot or any of the other riots, the thousands of death threats against Trump, or the lunatic ranting of Madonna, Ashley Judd and others. I did see some condemnation of Lady Gaga for not going after Trump at the Super Bowl. So, I just don’t see the “civil war in the democrat party” that he speaks of, just a bunch of unhinged, deranged leftists who can’t get over the fact that the “smartest woman in the world” lost to a political novice.
God sometimes send the most unlikely of servants. Whomwould have thought that Donald Trump would be the one to save the Republican Party from itself?
Wouldn’t surprise me to see Dem states send Senator Madonna and Senator Ashley Judd to Washington.
The reaction to Trump’s action have pitted pragmatic, center-left politicians against protesting activists forming “The Resistance.”
Now wait a minute here. I thought both Obama and Hillary are ‘pragmatic center-left polticians.’ And both of them have encouraged the protesting activists. Fox News is clearly not in a very analytical mood in this screed designed to rehabilitate the Democratic Party.
All this DNC on life support is way overstated. All they need is the black vote to turn out, and some more illegals and legals, and they will take America like they took California.
I, for one, support their initiative and will continue to encourage them....
Good call. My wish and prediction was for liberals to literally jump off roofs but I have not seen any of these pukes do it...
Where the Trump opposition jumped the shark is that they are not only attacking Trump, but viciously attacking Trump supporters and even those they suspect of being a Trump supporter. They are accusing anyone disagreeing with them of horrible motives and abhorrent attitudes. The result is a digging in and standing up to the bullying that hasn’t occurred before. The whiny babies are not eliciting sympathy, but anger, defiance and resolve.
It sounds like Schoen is trying to learn something as a result of the election, most haven’t. And at least that Jessica Tarlov who works for him seems to be off the pundit circuit. Her voice is like scraping nails on a blackboard!
If they could just insult me more, that would sway me to their arguments.
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