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Where are the Democrats?

A feckless minority party can write all the letters it wants, but an opposition has to make meaning for people

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Jan 29, 2025
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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, speaking on the impact of the Trump administration's second coup

In this second week of the Trump administration, a fully captured Republican Party is underwriting a second coup attempt. It’s what everyone expected.

But Democrats are absent, except when they’re confirming Trump’s deeply unqualified nominees, getting behind the administration on initiatives like AI competitiveness, and abandoning their agency in favor…

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