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A record 100-minute speech by Donald Trump on Tuesday for an unpleasant common session of the Congress made for a curious and aware spectacle I don’t even call for (to a large extent predictable) Braggadocio and balloon Coming from the man standing on the speaker’s rostrum.
No, it was the adherence to many Democrats in the Chamber really made me conquer. Many have turned to posters that read things like “It’s a lie”, “The musk steals” and “This is not normal”, which they kept like strict student protesters at various points during the Trump address.
Many Democratic Congressions and Women also coordinated their clothes in a series of different colors-black “to meet the Suboć political moment,” obviously. Pink is worn out as the color of “protest, power and perseverance”, according to representative of the new Mexico Teresa Leger Fernández. “It’s time to recover the opposition and come to Trump out loud and clear,” she told Time magazine without irony.
It was far from the only attempt to ham that attracted Democrats when drawing attention over the past week. In what seemed to be a kind of prevailing rebuttal of the president’s address to the congress, more than 20 democratic senators launched a harmonized attack on social media on Trump. “SH*t that is not true, you just saw it,” every senator, with varying degrees of clumsiness, said on the camera after Trump’s clip made a claim that he would record prices on the first day of his presidency.
And then a video of several members of the Democratic House was posted on Thursday, including Alexandria father-cortez, posing as a video game figures, together with the inscription “Select your fighter”. “Our side will forever be in power if this is our opposition,” published Right -wing account “end of the end”.
Hardly disagree. Democrats must urgently present a convincing opposition to Trump’s administration. But if I can adopt a tone of the Senator Video, This is not, the boss. How many Trump voters do they think they will win with these cascades? The fact that Democrats may have considered them a good idea suggesting that November lessons electoral They have not yet been learned.
And let’s be clear: things don’t go well for fun at all. Record low 21 percent The voters are satisfied with the way representatives of Democrats in the Congress are engaged in work, according to the Quinnipiac University of Quinnipiac. A record high 40 percent of voters approve of the Republicans’ effect in Congress.
Youg’s convenience tracker Shows that the democrats are more unpopular than at any other moment since at least January 2017.
Part of their problem is that there is no obvious leader of the opposition – officially or otherwise. In the first two months of Joe Biden in power in 2021, about half the news of the President also mentioned Trump, According to Pewa. Democrats do not currently have a comparable figure.
So what can they do? There were proposals – including former Congressmen Wiley Nikl and a historian Timothy Snyder – That what is now needed is a kind of shadow cabinet, like the one we have in Britain. It affects me as a very good idea, because that would mean that an alternative view is always available.
Democrats could also show more courage in the way they communicate: Instead of carefully practicing TV interviews, they could allow them to speak more freely about long -shaped subcasties, such as Joe Rogan’s. There are trial signs of change: California Governor Gavin News, who is considered a likely candidate for a 2028 Democratic nomination, launched his own subcast this week, promising to invite guests with whom he “disagreed deeply.” But to greatly avoiding such discussions, Democrats look like they do not know what they are on and afraid they will catch them.
And that leads us to the core of things: Democrats urgently have to present a positive vision of their values and ideas. Instead of a constant stream of tedious troops, they have to say what they would do differently-instantly when they are against a man who knows how so strongly communicate your message.
“Orange Man Bad” doesn’t work. Democrats must present a serious alternative to Maga. Wearing appropriate colors and clumsily uttering explicit cameras, it doesn’t really meet the seriousness of the political moment.
