Democrats are bent on bringing down Trump rather than proposing an agenda to address widespread and legitimate needs
As the wheels of Trumplandia continue to spin,it’s been easy to overlook one glaring reality: Democrats in Congress are doing nearly nothing other than finding unusual and creative ways to resist the Republicans. As a political tactic, that may be smart, and but it leaves the public and voters with no clear or viable alternative as attention slowly begins to turn to mid-term elections in 2018.
The attempt of Democrat Jon Ossoff to stage an upset in the special Georgia House election may have floundered in part because he offered scant policy specifics. For the Democrats as a whole,fitting the unusual Party of No does nothing for a public that across the spectrum demands actual solutions to genuine problems of income, healthcare, or jobs and some coherent vision for the future.
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Source: theguardian.com