The growing Democratic divide

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | September 22, 2017 | Linda Feldmann

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PATTERNS OF THOUGHT   Shut out of power in Washington, Democratic leaders have been looking for ways to work with President Trump on key issues - but they risk raising the ire of a base that is shifting leftward.

WASHINGTON—Nancy Pelosi likely never dreamed that the DREAMers would turn on her.

But that’s what happened. Days after the top House Democrat and her Senate counterpart struck a deal with President Trump to help young illegal immigrants gain legal status, several dozen immigration activists overwhelmed a press conference she was holding on the subject.

“All of us or none of us,” they chanted. And: “we are not a bargaining chip.”

It was an extraordinary scene, playing out on Representative Pelosi’s home turf Monday in San Francisco. Here, after all, was a Democratic leader – her party frozen from power on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue – who had found a way to work with Mr. Trump to potentially shield from deportation nearly 700,000 illegal immigrants brought to this country as children, in exchange for enhanced border security. Earlier this month, Trump had rescinded their protected status under the Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

But the challenge Democratic leaders are facing goes deeper than just DACA and immigration. Across the issue spectrum, the Democratic Party is shifting leftward – which makes dealmaking with Trump all the more fraught, and risks even wider polarization between the two parties.

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To many on the left, working with Trump is anathema. It “normalizes” and legitimizes him, they say. And the left wing of the Democratic Party is growing.

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“All of us or none of us,”...

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Removal results in at least a ten year ban on re-entry.

[Tanniker Smith]

If they took a page out of Bill Clinton's book, they could take something the GOP proposes, condemn it, then make slight changes to it, praise it, own it, claim it as a victory.

Slick Willie took credit for most of the parts of the Contract with America that were signed into law, even while criticizing the contract.

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"WASHINGTON—Nancy Pelosi likely never dreamed that the DREAMers would turn on her. "

I always suspected this could happen. Next: Balkanized communities creating their own political parties. All is possible through election fraud (and maybe even without it).