Democrats Must Do to Trump What Republicans Did to Obama: Resist Him at All Costs

Democrats Must Do to Trump What Republicans Did to Obama: Resist Him at All Costs
This isn't political retribution, but a fight for the future of American democracy.
BEN COHEN 21 HOURS AGO

With the relentlessly bad news about Donald Trump's election victory and the team he is compiling to run the country, I must confess to feeling completely overwhelmed by it all. Trump's cabinet picks are so genuinely terrifying that trying to comprehend the new America we will soon be living is an act of courage in of itself.

The response to this from the Left cannot under any circumstances be anything other than all out war. The Republican Party subjected President Obama to eight years of unprecedented obstructionism, and the Democrats must respond in kind. This isn't political retribution though -- it is a battle to preserve the basic functioning of government and American democracy.

Trump and the Republicans are going to gut Medicare and Medicaid, wreck the lives of the working poor, and place the economy in great danger by rolling back vital regulations protecting us from the ravages of Wall Street. As Joy Ann Reid wrote in The Daily Beast, those who voted for Trump are about to find out that billionaires "who live in golden penthouses are rarely populists, and even more rarely heroic":

To prevent this from happening means elected Democrats must filibuster, refuse to work with Republicans, and work feverishly to get elected at all levels of government. Trump must be stopped at every turn with as much fire power as possible, and Democrats who refuse to fight should be run out of the party quickly.

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