In the weeks leading up to the pivotal vote on the GOP’s Continuing Resolution (CR), the national media and Democrats were wringing their hands over their party’s “disarray.”
“Democrats in disarray,” claimed the Norfolk Daily News. “Democrats in Disarray as Trump Pushes Through Agenda,” declared the Wall Street Journal. Bloomberg pointed out that no one knows how to bring the party out of its doldrums. “Democrats Are in Disarray With No Easy Fix,” the media outlet ruminated.
Rudderless, and aimless, the Democrats were in a world of hurt. To make the situation worse, no one was listening to anyone else. The ideas on how to combat Donald Trump’s onslaught went from the idiotic to the dangerous. The Democratic Party was well and truly stuck in neutral, with no solutions readily presenting themselves.
At this point, party leaders in Congress stepped up to offer a way forward. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries believed that total, absolute, unanimous opposition to everything Trump proposed was the path forward. When the Continuing Resolution came to a vote, just one Democrat defected to vote for it.
But beyond that vote, there was no unanimity for a…
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