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Offline rangerrebew

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Democrats’ rulebook resistance to Trump fails to capture the imagination
 
Democrats’ reliance on a series of procedural challenges to President Donald Trump’s early reforms has so far failed to inspire the type of movement that characterized their party during the first Trump presidency.

In fact, their strategy may be backfiring.

Four months after Trump led Republicans to win unified control of government, Democrats are still sifting through the wreckage for clues as to why they lost and how they might start to rebuild.
 
Their approach so far has involved filing lawsuits to stop Trump’s executive orders and focusing on the bureaucratic rules they say he’s breaking.

“They don’t have a positive message,” University of Chicago political science professor emeritus Charles Lipson told the Washington Examiner. “They don’t have an effective messenger. And their normal channels of communication, the mainstream media, are ebbing in influence. So all they have left is frustration and friendly courts in blue states, and that’s what they’re relying on.”

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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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The plan doesn't capture the imagination because there is no imagination in the plan.  Its just more of the same: "we don't like Trump so we're going to complain.  That will show him!"  :baby:
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Dems 101
If Trump is for it we are not

If it does good for America , oppose it and deny any benefits.
“When I die, I want the kingdom of darkness to rejoice because I am off the spiritual battlefield.”


Voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten us just that......

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Dems 101
If Trump is for it we are not

If it does good for America , oppose it and deny any benefits.
Pretty much sums it up, but leaves out all the howling splinter groups that provide billions in skimmable money from the public coffers.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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