Democrats are rallying but will the fight against President Donald Trump produce results?
The Summer of Resistance
Democrats are rallying but will the fight against President Donald Trump produce results?
By Susan Milligan | Senior Writer
June 9, 2017, at 6:00 a.m.
Rallies. Canvassing. Demanding answers at congressional town halls. Voter registration, organizer training and candidate recruitment.
It sounds like it could be some sort of political rehab plan for Democrats, who found themselves losing what most agree was a very winnable presidential race last year, despite having a more experienced, conventional and more traditionally organized nominee. Democrats are calling it Resistance Summer, a season they hope will mark the transition from the shock-and-awe reaction to Donald Trump's inauguration as president to a more focused strategy that will result in more than just abandoned protest signs and deflated balloons.
But can Democrats and their allies morph the backlash against Trump into a movement with actual results, such as the Tea Party Patriots did in 2009-10? Or will they just go the way of Occupy Wall Street, a movement filled with passionate, determined people who failed to sustain themselves as an effective, ongoing political force?
The answer may determine whether Democrats can take advantage of White House scandals, abysmal Trump approval ratings and feuds inside the GOP to recapture the House (and less likely, the Senate) in 2018. And it may also bring Democrats closer to figuring out its own identity crisis, with players arguing over how to appeal to disparate groups of minorities, working class whites, LGBT people and women.
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