By Chris Hayes\MSNBC
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“Where are the Democrats? What are they doing as the opposition party?” The answer is: not much.
Part of the problem is that Democrats don’t have much power. They are shut out of both chambers of Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court.
But it is also true that many elected Democrats are not exactly seizing the moment. A lot of them seem to have learned a very weird set of lessons from the defeat in 2024. They are working backward trying to fight the last war instead of pivoting to the political reality of the here and now.
We are dealing with Trump’s assault on the Constitution, so it is ridiculous to think that this strategy of playing it safe is the solution to that assault. Not every act of defiance against Trump’s anti-constitutional power grab needs to take into account what a swing voter in Wisconsin is going to think on Election Day in 2026 or 2028. Leave that to the political consultants and the front-line House members a year from now.
A lot of this renewed frustration stems from the Democrats’ response to Trump’s joint address on Tuesday. About four minutes into the speech, Rep. Al Green of Texas stood up from his seat to protest potential Medicaid cuts. Green was ultimately forcibly removed from the chamber by the House sergeant-at-arms.
He was the only Democrat who put up that kind of fight, and in response, one anonymous Democrat, whom Axios described as a centrist, told the outlet: “What [Green] did was inappropriate — and he became the story, not the price of eggs.”
That is just completely misreading the moment. This fight, right now, is not about the price of eggs…READ MORE
