'Demoralized' Democrats 'remain in the fetal position' as Trump 'runs right over them': analysis

17 December 2024

A month from this Friday, December 20, President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House. And he has made no secret of the type of administration that he wants.

Many of the people he plans to nominate in 2025 are far-right MAGA loyalists, and he is only doubling down on his more controversial campaign promises — which include imposing tariffs on Mexico and Canada, mass deportations, and targeting members of the media for retribution.

In a biting article published by the conservative website The Bulwark on December 17, journalist A.B. Stoddard is vehemently critical of "demoralized" Democrats — who, she argues, have spent too much time licking their wounds after Vice President Kamala Harris' loss and need to be planning a resistance strategy to Trump's second administration.

"Six weeks after Election Day," Stoddard laments, "Democrats remain in a fetal position. While Donald Trump enjoys a honeymoon, his opposition is barely protesting as he runs right over them. While some Democrats are eager to offer up post-mortems and engage in self-flagellation about how the party failed, most of them are barely speaking about Trump."

Stoddard continues, "Even as he outlines his mass deportation plans, makes promises of inflationary tariffs, and delivers post-election acknowledgement that he cannot mitigate inflation, Democrats are quiet. The average voter could be forgiven for thinking Democrats are more interested in what podcasts Kamala Harris didn't go on than the high-stakes policy debates and political battles rapidly approaching."

Post-election Democrats, Stoddard observes, "seem to be content to hunker down until they have more answers about why and how they lost so many of their former voters to Trump."

"Trump is also threatening to jail members of Congress," Stoddard warns. "The president-elect has been trying to force the governor of his home state to name his unqualified daughter-in-law to a Senate seat there. His online mob has been threatening GOP senators with primaries if they don't approve of his unfit and unqualified nominees."

Stoddard adds, "Do Democrats accept this erosion of checks and balances? It's hard to know. They're not saying much…. Being demoralized to the point of paralysis is bad for their party and for the country. But it's great for Trump."

A.B. Stoddard's full article for The Bulwark is available at this link.

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