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In reply to the discussion: Democrats launch scorched-earth strategy against Trump [View all]The_Voice_of_Reason
(274 posts)4. The Democrats have spent too much time
being nice, turning the other cheek. How did "When they go low, we go high" and "Stronger Together" work out for us? We lost our chance to take back the Senate, lost the White House, and our chance to have a liberal Supreme Court for the next 25-30 years.
The time has come to take the gloves off and get down into a serious street fight with the Radical Republican Party at every level of government, not just federally.
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It wasn't even described as any thousand ... like one or two. Wish they did an aerial pic
bettyellen
Jan 2017
#101
staying silent or even cooperating isn't the same as "going high." That would be calling a spade a
yurbud
Jan 2017
#89
Time too, to signal to some R legislators that they don't have to go down with the Trumptanic. NT
Girard442
Jan 2017
#8
+1, buncha shit being talked on both sides... Jeff Sessions will be our tell tale
uponit7771
Jan 2017
#46
Somehow we got to get the message to dems to stop going to a tank fight with a shot gun, it doesn't
uponit7771
Jan 2017
#64
Maybe "scorched earth" means different things to different people because voting for
manicraven
Jan 2017
#28
Also, part of the damage done by Trump is to question the validity of the last election---
Akamai
Jan 2017
#37
We need to show the same respect to trump that the GOP showed to President Obama
Gothmog
Jan 2017
#38
They better, no appeasement this time like they did with bush, the last unelected Repug.
diane in sf
Jan 2017
#105