Time Now For Dems To Go Offense And Use Trump's Stumbles To Further Define Him With The Public

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Simon Rosenberg

Morning all. I wake this morning believing that Trump is weaker than he was a week ago, and our movement stronger. Trump’s early, reckless economic approach has caused the economy to slow, inflation to rise, consumer confidence to fall and the markets to grow increasingly worried. After a bad week last week the major stock market indices are off again this morning, in part because the trade wars Trump has launched are escalating:

Beijing began imposing tariffs on Monday on many farm products from the United States, for which China is the largest overseas market. It is the latest escalation of a trade fight between the world’s two largest economies.

The Chinese government announced the tariffs last week, shortly after President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese products for the second time since he took office in January. The Chinese tariffs will include a levy of 15 percent on U.S. products like chicken, wheat and corn, as well as 10 percent on products like soybeans, pork, beef and fruit.

Beijing said that goods that had already been shipped before Monday and imported by April 12 would not be subject to the new tariffs. Because crops like soybeans, wheat and corn, in particular, tend to travel by sea, this means that China’s customs officials will actually collect few tariffs until shipments arrive in China after leaving the United States on Monday or later.

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/time-now-for-dems-to-go-offense-and

[Scrivener7]

1. Wouldn't that be nice?

[gab13by13]

2. I was going to post something similar

but I kept getting a gateway time out. Usage must be enormous at DU today.

Wish Democrats had a unified media strategist to nail Krasnov today about why he caused the market to crash?

It's liable to go back up tomorrow, but nail him today.

[Walleye]

3. I Feel sorry for the farmers. They spent the last few years repairing the markets that were destroyed for soybeans

In China from the first Trump administration. Why would you let somebody who has no concept of farming whatever regulate your commodities? I know many farmers probably voted for him. Still I can’t help but feel sorry for victims of a scam.

[al_liberal]

4. I've come to a difficult realization.

Our current Democratic Party will never fight for anything.

[Passages]

5. I hope people click the links.

These citizens are doing great, and it is not a shabby crowd.

[Paladin]

6. Get busy, Democratic leadership!

trump shows more and more vulnerability by the day---we need to take advantage of this, immediately.

[lees1975]

7. You don't really expect this group of Congressional Democrats to actually be bold in their resistance to Trump, do you?

I'm just not seeing it. That's not bashing, that's expressing an opinion formed by observation. As long as the goal is to avoid controversy and protect their own interests and seats, we will not see any real meaningful resistance to Trump, or any effort to get him out.

We had a chance, four years ago, to pack the court, guaranteeing the preservation of Roe and squelching the ridiculous Presidential immunity ruling, which would have been worth the risks involved in breaking the filibuster. We could have moved much faster with Trump's insurrection trial, branded him as an insurrectionist, jailed him and we'd have a much different perspective now, and more than likely a Democratic controlled government instead of the GOP.

So I don't expect much from these Democrats in this Congress.