A little far out there, "Designated Survivor" reference.
Could be just that the dems do not want to give Trump a platform to make them look bad. They remain silent, R's cheer, on things most Americans support and want.
SOTU will expose how wrong the D's are on most of the issues....
Designated Survivor might be far-fetched, but if the dems really just didn’t want to look bad, they could applaud tepidly or something. If they don’t want to look bad, they could certainly modify their behavior in some way.
And if they were truly patriotic Americans, they would back a President regardless of party, on things that were good for the country. Maybe a little like how I (and most of us here) back Flynn, a Democrat. And for that matter, Trump, a former Democrat who, if you wanted to be cynical about it, may have opportunistically become a Republican in order to get elected.
In fact, think about this: Which party has had the most members prosecuted or resigned since Trump was elected? The Republicans. RINOs have been exposed, forced out of office, possibly executed for treason. Any Dems in that category yet? Not that I can recall.
So on one hand, you might think that conservatives have been duped into being taken down and losing power all the while applauding it and hoping that the Dems will get their just deserts at a later time.
Why do I think we have not been duped? My current thinking is that in order to take down the vastly more corrupt D party, Trump will need to point to the fact that he is cleaning house in the R party as well. What better way to do that than to be able to point to the Rs who have been forced to step down? If he just started locking up HRC & 0vomit, the Ds would scream that it was political. But when prosecutions are bi-partisan, and in fact start with evil Rs, then it’s much more difficult to claim that the Trump team is politically motivated. Also having a mix of R & D on the team helps. So glad to see Flynn (D) on the team.