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Democrats are making a show of their willingness to cooperate with the incoming Trump administration. That's not their job.

It's time for the Democratic Party to abandon its staid, rules-based resistance to Trumpism and wage a fierce, moral response.

200+ skin-tone bandages: a whole community to heal.

From China and the Middle East to immigration, all too many liberals have already moved inexorably rightward. Count on them to quietly support some of Trump's policies.

The foreign policy proletariat needs to stop filtering its dissent through official channels and start taking more radical action.

"Government" might sound ineffective and wasteful in the abstract. But Americans will miss it when it's gone.

The outgoing senator recognizes--to a greater extent than any other Democrat--the need to renew the party's commitment to a politics of economic populism.

Piss You Off. (Graffiti In NYC)

While showboats like Elon Musk and RFK Jr. get all the attention, the real power in a second Trump term is likely to be wielded by quietly effective bureaucrats and policy intellectuals like these men and women.

But between candidates who are defenders of the system and those who are anti-system. Democrats lost because they allowed Trump to be the only voice of antiestablishment rage.