The Democrats were irate in the morning after some tried to bring the fight to President Trump to a joint session congress during his speech on Tuesday, and argued that their protests had withdrawn and underlined why their party lost the election in November.
“We never learn,” said a democratic strategist all over and felt emptied by the reaction of the Democrats.
“We can’t just be the party that Trump barks, and I’m sorry, but we are. And until we learn this lesson, we will lose. “
Another strategist was also upset by the scene, which developed.
“He owned us,” said the strategist. “He made us look like what we are: Fass Bödern.”
Democrats have tried to find out how they can best react to Trump since their loss in November, especially because he wants to reconfigure the federal government. At first, many in the party said that they did not want to repeat their “resistance strategy” during the first term in Trump.
While Trump’s marathon speech on Tuesday evening in the house chamber, where a enormous number of liberal democrats carried out a variety of protests to underline their resistance to a president that they indicate a threat to the country, the resistance was fully equipped. Some gave signs of the support of Medicaid and against Elon Musk. Others got up to display “resistance messages” on their shirts, and then went out of the chamber.
Rep. Al Green, a 77-year-old Democrat in Texas, only a few minutes after Trump’s speech and hugged the President, his stick blew towards the speaker. When Green ignored the requests of the House speaker to “take their seat”, he was ejected from the chamber.
The demonstrations have provided many liberals in the base of the Democrats with energy – a group that accused the party leaders in view of Trump’s flash of the executive actions too lukewarm. However, they have also annoyed more moderate democrats on and outside the Capitol Hill, who fear that the protests from the headlines have a breather from the controversial political agenda that Trump trumped out of the podium.
Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) Characterized the protests as “a sad cavalry of self-owned and petulation”.
“Trump only makes it look a presidency and more reserved”, he ” wrote Wednesday On the social platform X.
A third strategist suggested that the protest strategy was simply not a challenge to take over an unorthodox president and to formulate it as a “normal game book for a abnormal time”.
“Democrats must stand on the box in the age of Trump,” said the strategist. “While her legislative options to stop Trump are limited, Democrats can do a lot more to form the public story and to combat Trump’s avalanche of lies and misinformation.”
The protests, especially the defiant stand of Green, were exactly the kind of things that wanted to discourage democratic leaders in the days before Trump’s speech.
On the way to Tuesday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.) advised the democratic legislators to approach the speech as it best suits the feelings of their districts. For some that meant boycotting the event. For most others, it meant respect for tradition, but tacitly to protest against Trump’s message.
However, democratic leaders had warned the legislators not to provide waves during the speech, out of worry that the protests would overshadow the content of Trump’s words. In a letter to his troops on Monday, Jeffries approved the importance of a “strong, determined and worthy democratic presence in the chamber”.
Other legislators clearly interpreted his message: don’t do it about you.
Green’s protest drinked this council and created a dilemma for democratic leaders who have a long history in the criticism of the Republicans for outbreaks during the Union’s speeches held by democratic presidents.
On Wednesday, Jeffries defended the behavior of the “majority” of his Caucus during Trump’s speech, but refused to contain the smaller group that had protested.
“[An] The immense majority of the Haus Democrats approached the speech with the seriousness she had earned on behalf of the American people, ”said Jeffries.
Nevertheless, democratic leaders were clearly frustrated that the protests had stolen some headlines from Trump’s speech. And on Wednesday, they fought the focus of the President’s political agenda on Wednesday, not least on the cost currents of Musk and the Efficiency of the Ministry of Government.
Rep. Katherine Clark (mass.), The democratic whip, recognized decor “is important”. But she was incredulous that the Republicans could be outraged above demonstrations that oppose medicaid, education and medical research, but not about the cuts themselves.
“[Trump] Has come in with an unexpected – richest man on Earth – and has taken up a chainsaw for everything that interests us. … it’s a betrayal, ”said Clark.
“So don’t let us talk about decency if the plot is exposed and repeated every day,” she continued. “They take people health care, they take the advantages of our veterans, they take over from our public schools. And they do everything – everything – everything, the richest person who doesn’t even notice it, but their greed knows no limits. “
While the Democrats are fighting to go beyond the controversy for the protests on Tuesday, the Republicans hope to expand them as long as possible.
When Trump’s speech at the delayed Tuesday evening ended, a enormous number of Republicans – including members of Conservative Freedom Caucus – swear to center for the disturbances of the event. And on Wednesday Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) Such an invoiceThe green accuses of “violating the right behavior”.
The house is expected to vote on the measure on Thursday. However, the green is that the discipline is a tiny price to pay the message he sent.
“It is worthwhile to let people know that there are some people who will get up [to Trump]”Said Green.
