Democrats and activists punish Trump with a new strategy: Ignoring him

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Democrats and activists punish Trump with a new strategy: Ignoring him

By Matt Viser at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-and-activists-punish-trump-with-a-new-strategy-ignoring-him/2019/01/16/192ed646-185c-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.75fd5068b7e9

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, once one of President Trump’s biggest antagonists on Twitter, isn’t engaging the president these days — even after he went after the Massachusetts Democrat, her husband, and her beer. Trump didn’t come up in the Golden Globe Awards this year, a departure from the past two years where he was maligned repeatedly from the stage. A satirical cable show about him has been canceled. A group of rank-and-file House Democrats turned down Trump’s invitation to have lunch at the White House on Tuesday.

Trump, who recently pined about being lonely in the White House, is lately finding himself in a position he’s rarely been in over the past few years: Ignored.

His political cachet has been driven by an unerring ability to goad other people into fights that benefit him. The metric he cares about is owning the television ratings and national attention, more than polling or anything else.

The new silent treatment limits Trump’s ability to dictate national coverage and frame the day’s debate. And it’s providing an early template for how Democratic presidential candidates may attempt to deal with him in 2020, essentially forcing him out of a conversation they want to have with voters.

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Watch out. Trump may start reading the Fox Nightly News to viewers every evening. LOL!