Because Democrats have been so calm, cool, and collected so far, they want to make 2020 about anger
Trump sets Democratic field ablaze with anger
The price of entry for the 2020 presidential primary is ferocious opposition to the president.The Democratic base is so roiled and enraged after only two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency that a take-no-prisoners posture toward the White House is emerging as the price of entry for the 2020 primary.
An election that could have focused in on economic inequality and the excesses of Wall Street — the issues that animate the left’s leading tribunes, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — is already shaping up as a contest about the intensity of the resistance to Trump.
Sounds similar to 2004, and that anger carried through to 2008. Because Democrats are angry people.
The urgency of the moment is not lost on the party’s leading 2020 hopefuls. Many of them — including Warren and fellow Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Kamala Harris — abandoned their schedules last weekend to appear at protests in their home states or in Washington, grasping the imperative to be both public and distinctive in their opposition to Trump’s executive order on refugee travel. Then Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand, and Booker voted against approving Elaine Chao for Secretary of Transportation, one of Trump’s least controversial picks and an unmistakable thumb in the eye of Chao’s husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (snip)
Leading Democratic strategists warn that the first signs will appear in midterm elections, where the primary electorate will demand more than just marching outside the White House or grabbing a bullhorn at an arrivals lounge. They’ll be expecting something close to 100 percent rejection of Trump’s agenda — making the coming years complicated for members of Congress, who have to vote on it, rather than the governors and mayors who get to assume more offensive posture.
They don’t even know what Trump will do, and they’re aren’t waiting for him to actually do something. Resist!!!!!!! or something. If he does something they approve of, you can bet they’ll be stunned silence for about 24 hours, then they’ll still find a way to be angry and against it, much like when Bush 43 came out with his amnesty plan.
Will it work? It’s one thing to be angry: it’s entirely something else when these people are marching in the streets, screaming vulgarities, assaulting other people, including police officers and their horses, setting things on fire, damaging property, leaving places a mess, breaking laws. This level of unhinged will not help them win back the White House nor either branch of Congress.
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But, hey, you go, Snowflakes.
