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Rep. Al Green set the bar for Democrats. Most of them failed to meet it.
As the country has watched Trump and his appointees reshape American government in less than 50 days, the demands that Democrats fight back have grown increasingly louder.
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As the country has watched Trump and his appointees reshape American government in less than 50 days, the demands that Democrats fight back have grown increasingly louder. The blistering pace with which Trump and his allies have leaned into implementing Project 2025 initially appeared to catch the Democrats’ party leadership flatfooted, and there has still been no inspiring moment of coordinated resistance.
Trump’s address to Congress was a big opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate that they understand the assignment; however, most of the Democrats and their leadership seemed largely unaligned and uncoordinated about how bold an opposition statement they actually wanted to make.......
It’s easy to question the effectiveness of Green’s actions and dismiss his protest as largely performative. While it's fair to suggest that Democrats’ focus should be on substantive results for Americans, learning how to match those efforts with symbolism that inspires is the very real two-things-at-once task that Democrats will need to master to figure their way out of second place.
MAGA, for example, is as much marketing and messaging as it is ideology. Project 2025 is substantive policy. The two exist in the same space and further each other. Whether you agree with breaking the civility code for the purposes of making an optical appeal to your base doesn’t erase a belief that real strategy is necessary. What can’t be debated is that executing and implementing any plan is going to require a greater grit, a sharper nerve and a boldness that Dems largely failed to show when it counted.
Trump’s address to Congress was a big opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate that they understand the assignment; however, most of the Democrats and their leadership seemed largely unaligned and uncoordinated about how bold an opposition statement they actually wanted to make.......
It’s easy to question the effectiveness of Green’s actions and dismiss his protest as largely performative. While it's fair to suggest that Democrats’ focus should be on substantive results for Americans, learning how to match those efforts with symbolism that inspires is the very real two-things-at-once task that Democrats will need to master to figure their way out of second place.
MAGA, for example, is as much marketing and messaging as it is ideology. Project 2025 is substantive policy. The two exist in the same space and further each other. Whether you agree with breaking the civility code for the purposes of making an optical appeal to your base doesn’t erase a belief that real strategy is necessary. What can’t be debated is that executing and implementing any plan is going to require a greater grit, a sharper nerve and a boldness that Dems largely failed to show when it counted.