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标 题: 主党的烦恼：反trump反多了会出现疲劳现象
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Feb 5 11:52:26 2017, 美东)
The Democrats face up to their Trump problem
The base is eager to protest the president, but elected leaders worry about
outrage fatigue.
Democrats don’t know how long they’ll be able to keep up the pace of
protests against President Donald Trump—and they’re worried Trump and his
team are counting on them to run out of energy before the White House does.
Two weeks into the Trump administration, party leaders have already reached
a frantic, fevered pitch, throwing around talk of constitutional crisis and
raising the specter of impeachment.
“The thing that we don’t want to do is anesthetize the public with dozens
and dozens of press conferences and marquee events,” said Seattle Mayor Ed
Murray. “Then it’ll just become background noise. I’m worried that’s
exactly what they’re trying to maneuver us into doing.”
Democrats are having as much trouble defusing Trump now that he’s in the
White House as they did all through last year’s campaign. Murray said he’s
seen neither a clear understanding among leaders in Washington of how far
left their base has careened in just the past few weeks nor the emergence of
any infrastructure among progressive groups for turning what’s going on in
the streets into concerted opposition
“The question is: how do we respond beyond that?” Murray said. “I’m a
little worried that we’re not there.”
House Democrats head to their retreat in Baltimore next week trying to come
up with an answer.
“Some people on social media are already saying, ‘Yes! Impeach the guy.’
No. I think any time you’re talking about impeachment, which is
historically extremely significant, that is not something you do on a whim,
” said Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas), explaining that he used the word
himself earlier in the week as a warning of where things might go. “I think
our response should be reasonable, it should not be exaggerated—but we
fundamentally have to protect the integrity of the republic.”
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Some of his colleagues will boycott Trump’s address before a joint session
of Congress at the end of the month. Others are planning to go, but come up
with a way to protest that makes a splash. They’re trolling, referring to
“President Bannon” in the hopes of goading Trump into sidelining his chief
strategist if he thinks people are seeing him as a puppet.
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“I plan on being there at this point in time, I think it’s part of my
responsibility,” said Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), the chair of the House
Democratic caucus. “I’m there to witness and hear what he has to say, and
respond in kind.”
“We are going to continue to be the bulwark against the man. We’re going
to stop him at every opportunity we have,” Crowley added. “This is going
to be a gift that keeps on giving in some respects.”
Democrats are mobilizing around Republican members' town halls to protest
Obamacare repeal. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is demanding Mar-a-Lago
release its members list.
Some are trying other strategies of chipping away at Trump’s authority. Rep
. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) says he’s looking to hit the House staffers who
worked with the White House on crafting the ban and signed non-disclosure
agreements that he says made them into employees of the administration too.
“Sounds like double-dipping to me,” Gutiérrez said in an interview off
the House floor on Wednesday. “There might be a law against that.”
But Democrats readily acknowledge Trump won last year in part by sparking so
many simultaneous outrages among the left that they all blended together.
Trump’s White House so far is following that model.
“I don’t know whether we can count on him to do that for the full four
years, but if he keeps it, folks aren’t going to go away,” said
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, the chair of the Democratic Governors
Association. “Quite frankly, this is Vietnam at its height. The only thing
that resolved Vietnam was America leaving Vietnam. I suspect in some ways,
the only thing that’s going to resolve this is when Donald Trump leaves
Washington.” |
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