Liberals & Left-Leaning Media Decide to Push The Resistance Agenda&"

Democrats shun Loyal Opposition role choose Liberal Resistance to Trump By Joel Kotkin Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas  Perhaps nothing has made modern liberals and progressives look sillier than the often hysterical reaction to the election of Donald Trump. This has spanned everything from street protests claims of Russian electoral manipulation and even reports of sudden weight gain and loss of sexual interest. Rather than become more introspective in the face of defeat the bulk of left-leaning media and their intellectual allies have embraced the notion even before the new president proposes anything of following what UC Berkeley public policy professor and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls the resistance agenda." The notion of modern progressives donning berets and fighting the modern-day version of Nazis is absurd. Donald Trump may be wrongheaded and personally venal but he is not Adolph Hitler or even Benito Mussolini. Critically he is not particularly popular as were those demagogues. Trumps election certainly was not a mandate as many liberals correctly point out. The election showed a still deeply divided nation. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but the GOP triumphed everywhere else notably at the Congressional level where they won by 3.5 million votes and it did even better at the state and local levels. Certainly the progressives can get back into the game but first they need to toss out the berets stop talking civil disobedience and instead embrace the role of loyal opposition using counter-arguments rather than histrionics. Progressives still have wind at their backs Democrats time is still largely on your side. All the constituencies that backed Hillary Clinton minorities millennials college-educated professionals are demographically ascendant. Those that backed Trump such as boomers seniors and members of the white working class are destined to fade. To return to power in the short run however the Democrats need to appeal to parts of the largely white older Trump base many of them former Democrats. The meme as seen in Slates assertion that the election proved how racist sexist and unjust America is" does not seem the best way to win over these wavering voters. There are opportunities galore to do this. Joel Kotkin is executive editor of NewGeography.com. He is the Roger Hobbs Distinguished Fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University and executive director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism. His newest book The Human City: Urbanism for the rest of us will be published in April by Agate.
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