The Democrat's "Resistance" Needs Work
On the heals of a Russian scandal*, defending protests that included a modern-day Nazi running over people with his car, and hawking a book while Houston was drowning, California Senator Diane Feinstein (D) had this to say about President Trump:
OK fine, I get it, you don't wanna fight all the time. But let's just remind ourselves that there is very little about Trump's agenda that should appeal to any Democrat. And therein lies the rub: there are Democrats in Congress who will work for any person who happened to be President, whether it was Trump, Hillary Clinton or Dracula. They are the same type that get smacked around by the GOP when there's a Democrat in the White House and/or they have a majority, but when they have no leverage all they want to talk about is "working with" the people who treat them like scum.
Those types of Democrats are not needed; they will not help in pushing an agenda to help the American working class. They will not challenge bloated defense spending. They will not refuse to authorize or support questionable military policies and/or operations. They won't challenge a society where cops will kill a black man over cigarettes but do nothing when a white supremacist shoots his gun at a crowd.
Democrats who talk resistance online and on news shows then vote for the agenda they are supposed to be resisting are selling their constituents falsehoods.
*It's really more of an annoyance, and the hacking angle is being debunked by anyone who cares, but it's still something lingering over Trump's administration.
“The question is whether he can learn and change,” Feinstein told the crowd at the Commonwealth Club event. “If so, I believe he can be a good president...we’ll have to see if he can forget himself enough and have the type of empathy and direction the country needs...there are things that can be done....I have to work with people and a punch in the nose is not going to do it."
OK fine, I get it, you don't wanna fight all the time. But let's just remind ourselves that there is very little about Trump's agenda that should appeal to any Democrat. And therein lies the rub: there are Democrats in Congress who will work for any person who happened to be President, whether it was Trump, Hillary Clinton or Dracula. They are the same type that get smacked around by the GOP when there's a Democrat in the White House and/or they have a majority, but when they have no leverage all they want to talk about is "working with" the people who treat them like scum.
Those types of Democrats are not needed; they will not help in pushing an agenda to help the American working class. They will not challenge bloated defense spending. They will not refuse to authorize or support questionable military policies and/or operations. They won't challenge a society where cops will kill a black man over cigarettes but do nothing when a white supremacist shoots his gun at a crowd.
Democrats who talk resistance online and on news shows then vote for the agenda they are supposed to be resisting are selling their constituents falsehoods.
*It's really more of an annoyance, and the hacking angle is being debunked by anyone who cares, but it's still something lingering over Trump's administration.
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