Democratic obstruction: Is it working?

This, along with similar criticism of “historic Democratic obstruction” from White House aide Kellyanne Conway, made a number of groups on the left very happy, as they have been working hard to obstruct Trump’s agenda. “Kellyanne Conway inadvertently calls the resistance effective,” boasted a Share Blue story.

Observed Adam Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, after Republicans and Democrats came to a budget agreement: “There is no downside to strongly fighting Trump with backbone. It’s good politics and good policy — and a prerequisite to Democrats inspiring voters and winning big in 2018.”

It’s stunning turnabout given Democratic complaints about Republican obstructionism under Obama, but taking pointers from the party that defeated them is the new Democratic way. And Republicans don’t like it one bit.

Trump’s supporters see that “Democrats have not even made a pretense of cooperation with the candidate they elected,” asserted columnist Marc Theissen, a former George W. Bush speechwriter, in the Washington Post. “The Democratic Party is no longer the opposition; it is ‘The Resistance.'”



Garance Franke-Ruta.
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