They're kind of isolated in their perspective on this.
Hakeem Jeffries is still the Democratic minority leader in the House. I see the opposition from the Democratic party forming along two different tracks.
States with strong Democratic majorities will be resistance points. In terms of those who are already stepping up and making it known where they stand and how they will resist, Gavin Newsom, in California, and J. D. Pritzker, in Illinois, have been quite pointed and specific. I expect both of them will be deeply involved in Democratic party politics on the national level. Walz is now in the national limelight, and is in a solidly Democratic state with a lot of liberal policy successes that people like. I think Josh Shapiro and Gretchen Whitmer will also be there at the state level. There was a Democratic majority in Michigan down ballot.
As far as in Washington, and in Congress, Hakeem Jeffries is capable and moving up, and as house minority leader, in a house with a very slim Republican majority that has a speaker who is about as incompetent as they come as far as keeping things together, and he will have two very sharp, estute, and effective supporters in Jasmine Crockett, and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. On the Senate side, I'll be curious to see who steps into the Schumer vacuum. He'll still be there but he's not progressive enough. My guess is that there are some leaders waiting in the wings like Mark Kelly, from Arizona, and I expect to see Jon Ossoff, from Georgia, start moving ahead. Adam Schiff is in there now, too.
Personally, I'm kind of back and forth on how Democrats need to move forward. Part of me wants them to do all the damage they can, resisting, making him angry and then get him into his fits of rage when he makes mistakes and alienates people by the thousands. But then, I have watched this man's support ebb and flow like the tide. He's inept, incompetent and he is mentally deranged and demented. He'll do some damage, but he will undermine his support and leave things in a wreck, pieces to pick up like every other time he's ever done anything like this. He's left every business he's owned in bankruptcy, using the law to evade accountability, and every venture he's started, from steaks to Trump University, has failed. How long do you think this is going to last with the kind of leadership he's surrounding himself with. I'll take bets on how long it takes Republicans in Congress to shut the door and cut him off.
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