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dalton99a

(86,488 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:28 PM Jan 24

"We're trying to win an argument, and that's going to take time."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/trump-democrats-republicans.html

Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed and on the Defensive
Locked out of power in Washington, the party is struggling to agree on a unified message of opposition. Some of its lawmakers are even telling Republicans they want to work together.
By Reid J. Epstein
Jan. 24, 2025, 10:05 a.m. ET

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In some cases, Democrats are even making a show of working with Republicans.

Scores of them voted for the Laken Riley Act, which allows the deportation of unauthorized migrants who are accused but not yet convicted of crimes. Others volunteered to work with Republicans on a border security bill. And while Democrats are fighting the nominations of Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and Tulsi Gabbard as national intelligence director, Mr. Trump’s other cabinet appointees appear on a glide path to confirmation without much vocal resistance.

It is telling that in the opening days of the new Trump administration, the loudest pushback to the president’s policies has come not from an elected Democrat but from the bishop at Washington National Cathedral, who asked Mr. Trump directly during a service to have mercy on immigrants and L.G.B.T.Q. children.

“We’re no longer trying to win a news cycle,” said Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, a Democrat who has become an outspoken messenger for his party on social media. “We’re trying to win an argument, and that’s going to take time and patience and discipline.”

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This assumes your opponent - ahem, your sworn enemy - uses fact-based logical reasoning



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"We're trying to win an argument, and that's going to take time." (Original Post) dalton99a Jan 24 OP
"work together" with nazis? Think. Again. Jan 24 #1
If that's the case in the Democratic Party, heads need to roll DSandra Jan 24 #3
... Solly Mack Jan 24 #2
'some of its lawmakers'.... stillcool Jan 24 #4

DSandra

(1,481 posts)
3. If that's the case in the Democratic Party, heads need to roll
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 12:39 PM
Jan 24

Leadership has to be replaced! Enough with the spineless in the party!

stillcool

(33,169 posts)
4. 'some of its lawmakers'....
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 02:55 PM
Jan 24

"scores of them" and "others"...people love to eat this stuff up, and vomit it all over the place. What does it mean? Nothing.

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