Democrats cannot normalize popular-vote loser Donald Trump. They cannot legitimize the PUTIN-Trump administration. And yet, we have this shit:
Democrats who spoke with Schumer that night and in the following days described him as making an immediate shift to strategizing about how to work with Trump while also identifying where he would oppose him — and trying to talk himself into the idea that the president-elect isn’t really a Republican, but a pragmatist with no apparent ideological mooring.
Trump doesn’t have any ideological mooring, but so fucking what? Let Republicans deal with him while Democrats take shots from the sidelines. Trump himself may not give a fuck about anything besides himself, but his administration is already filled with dangerous demagogues. The people running the show are every bit as conservative as anything Ted Cruz would’ve coughed up.
Privately, the soon-to-be Senate minority leader has opened up a back channel of communication with Trump and, according to Democrats who have spoken with Schumer since the election, he views Trump as someone he can try to maneuver [...]
But in terms of simply going full war on Trump, one Democrat close to Schumer said: “He will leave that to the external groups, and look for ways to work together.”
I have a better idea—fuck Donald Trump. Continue to delegitimize him. Ride the wave of public discontent and feed it. Make the 2018 House elections all about impeaching Trump, all the while retaking lost ground at the state level. And obstruct everything, as long as possible, in every way allowed by the rules. And then, we win. Mitch McConnell showed the way.
If Chuck Schumer wants to play footsies with Trump, then fuck him. Let real Democrats take the helm.
