Democrats' grief is Donald Trump's best tool of distraction

[marmar]

Democrats' grief is Donald Trump's best tool of distraction
While the recriminations continue, Trump carries on undeterred

By Chauncey DeVega
Senior Writer
Published December 11, 2024 6:00AM (EST)


(Salon) .....(snip)....

The progressive Democrats in Congress appear to have a strategy for trying to stop the incoming Trump administration from further assaulting American democracy and gutting the social safety net to line the pockets of the kleptocrats and plutocrats: 1) cooperate with President Trump when they can find areas of common concern to advance the cause of working-people and 2) attempt to shame Trump as a hypocrite when he deviates from his promises about plans to help working-class Americans.

As I wrote in a previous essay, this strategy for stopping Trump is tragicomic. The progressive Democrats and other members of the party need to study history to learn from what happens when the Left, progressives and centrists/institutionalists in a failing democracy attempt to triangulate or otherwise cooperate with autocrats and insurgent authoritarians.

And what of the “liberal” news media and the so-called Resistance? They are still shellshocked from the 2024 election as the political world they thought existed where Harris would win because the American people and the nation are so “exceptional” and “the institutions” and “democracy!” encountered reality as it currently exists. The epistemic collapse is great. It is also painful to watch.

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Even more importantly, where is the fierce urgency of now from the Democrats, the so-called Resistance or the mainstream news media (the supposed “guardians of democracy”) about Trump and the MAGA Republican Party's shock and awe campaign against American democracy? The Democratic Party’s leadership (and the “liberal” news media and the party's other surrogates) need to start with an honest self-assessment — what is described in professional sports as “self-scouting” — if they want to defeat Trump and the MAGA Republicans in 2026 and beyond. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/12/11/democrats-grief-is-donald-best-tool-of-distraction/

[Midnight Writer]

1. You can't shame Trump.

He is 78 years old and will be sworn in as a lame duck. He no longer needs public support.

As a narcissist, he believes he is always right, regardless of all evidence to the contrary.

If you disagree with him, it is always because YOU are wrong.

He creates his own reality.

You will not move this man citing shame, morality, compassion, or patriotism.

[wolfie001]

2. Never practice wishy washy spinelessness a la sinema and manchin

[Blue_Tires]

3. I hate to keep saying it

But Nov. 5 was the time to actually DO something... I don't understand all these calls for "fierce urgency" from Dems when there was little from their most trusted voting blocs