Obama's Blistering New Takedown of Trump Gives Dems a Way Forward

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3. I don't think Trump opposition and resistance is going to depend much on the Democratic party, nor benefit much from it.

With the exception of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, we're really not getting the wholehearted and enthusiastic push that we should be getting from people who clam to believe that Trump is an existential threat to democracy. If he was, there'd have been a lot more risky, bold political moves and a lot less protecting of political asses. What I observed on Saturday was that Democratic party figures weren't so much involved in the organization and carrying out of what occurred. This was a grassroots movement, in the true definition of that term's meaning, and that gives it the ability to eventually swamp the GOP and Trump, and either make them get rid of him, like they did when the pressure was on Nixon, or neutralize him.

It's not going to be enough to fire up the Democrats to action, and I don't think, other than the two I've already mentioned, there is anyone else who is willing to put their ass on the line. Maybe Cory Booker, maybe Jamie Raskin, maybe. This is a narrowing down of the issues, a close definition of the message, which Dems always have trouble articulating and supporting, and a focus on the existential danger Trump poses to Democracy, and nothing else but that. It can't get wonky or lose track of direction and get lost in endless issues.