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Ineffective, reactive, questionably patriotic and temperamentally unstable Dems need to swing at fewer pitches
The failed attempts by Congressional Democrats on Wednesday night to stop, through a War Powers Resolution vote, the President’s aerial strikes on Iran is a metaphor for everything that’s wrong with the party.
Ineffective, reactive, questionably patriotic (Iran is counting on Democratic pressure to get Trump to pull the plug early on the attacks) and temperamentally unstable (the attacks will “end in failure,” said a wishful Hakeem Jeffries).
Warren Buffett once told us you don’t have to swing at every pitch. But for Democrats, every Trump utterance seems an opportunity go unhinged in fit of smug, self-satisfied contempt for the president. A cringe stagecraft and disorderly street theater seems like the discordant musical accompaniments.
This is what they call Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it’s a real thing.
To listen to Democrats, you would think resistance 2.0 is winning, but it’s not. For sure Trump’s numbers ebbed after the Minnesota ICE shootings, but Democrats trail Republicans on nearly every major issue. Seven in 10 voters think the Democrats are out of touch according to Quinnipiac poll. Only one in four voters identify with the donkeys today.
The Democrats have two major problems. One is behavioral, the other is policy.
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