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Friday, February 03, 2017

Mob Rules Drive Leaderless Democrats

Democrats, by their own admission, are leaderless right now, and it is showing as the party struggles to settle on a coordinated strategy to combat the early moves made by President Trump.

Left without a consensus point man or woman since former President Obama left the political spotlight last month, Democrats have taken more of a mob approach to opposition, throwing up roadblocks on almost every issue, embracing fights large and small.

They’ve rallied outside the Supreme Court, boycotted committee hearings, erected procedural hurdles, voted against both Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans’ agenda and generally vented anger at every turn.

“Every act of resistance you’ve seen from Democratic congressional leadership has been in response to the organic, nationwide wave of public pressure to fight President Trump rather than work with him,” said Christy Setzer, a Democratic strategist.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

We've had interruptions in refugee influx since forever. This six month suspension is no different (in fact it's shorter than most) but it's being reported as something new and terrible, and seized upon as a noisy and annoying political tool that sucks in the young, the ignorant and the uninformed.

Steve said...

Shouting and name calling is all they ever had. Leaders of the shouters and name callers get ignored and lose credibility first. They will never have leadership until they can come up with things like reason and logic. So sad, but they deserve what they have sown.

Anonymous said...

Frankly I think bipartisan politics is a myth. Depending on which party is in D.C. the other does not cooperate. However, after the 2016 election the left has taken it to an extreme. Too many moonbats on the left. The 2018 interims should send a message.

Anonymous said...

They are an extremist terror organization propped up by the media.