In between his lashing out—especially Democrats—at everybody for failing him on Trumpcare, popular vote loser Donald Trump tweeted to the people not to worry, because "we will all get together." Democrats have basically two words in response. Fat chance.
While it is far too soon to suggest that the House Republican majority may be imperiled, Democrats are newly optimistic about picking up seats in 2018, hoping to ride a backlash against Mr. Trump. Seeing an opportunity, they say they will not throw Mr. Trump a political life preserver at what they sense could be the first turns of a downward spiral. […]
And while his electoral success in states represented by Democrats in Congress had been thought to put such lawmakers in a vise between their party and their president, Mr. Trump demonstrated no ability to pick off centrist Democrats in his first significant legislative push. Democrats — red-state moderates and blue-state liberals alike — formed an unbroken front of opposition to the repeal-and-replace campaign.
“We’re not going to sacrifice our values for the sake of compromise,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader. “You think people from red states are going to be for tax reform with 98 percent of tax breaks going to the top 1 percent?” […]
“The unity we had internally, combined with the outside mobilization, really made this success possible,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the top House Democrat.
New DNC chair Tom Perez chimed in: "I could not be more thrilled that they have failed," Perez told NBC News. "But if your question is am I going to remind voters of this effort, then the answer is, 'You're damn right I will!'"
They like winning, and they like getting popular support for doing so. Which means we—the people giving them that support—have as big a job as ever now that we've won on Trumpcare. They're thrilled to have us with them and will want to keep it that way. So on everything else—whether it's protecting our privacy or filibustering Gorsuch, we need to keep the pressure on!