Democrats Go Scorched-Earth Against Trump

[Mr. Smith]

My only concern: Democrats were SO bad at shaming the Republicans for their obstructionism. My hunch is that the seasoned Republican politicians are going to be much better at making the Democrats look like bad guys for not giving an inch.

     This is my thought as well. The Republicans are much more skilled at these sorts of political games. It worked for them, but it's far from sure that the Democrats can also achieve success doing this.

All of this is true, but we've seen what the alternative is, and it's not pretty.

[Mr. Smith]

Or just sit back and watch Trump implode as he actually tries to run a country, just as they've done all week... That's more than sufficient for him to make himself unpopular.

That just makes the party look like a Party of Do-Nothing.

Meh. It would be smarter to work with Trump on issues where he's outside of standard Republican doctrine to drive a bigger wedge between him and Congressional Republicans. Grand prize would be frustrating Pence so much that he quits.

Except that Trump is clearly willing to give up whatever he stood for to toady for Congress if it keeps him in power, that's why he switched from pro-choice to pro-life, went from LGBT sympathetic to picking Pence.

And that's not assuming he takes the credit and touts those things as Republican, and we all know how on a dime those Congresscritters are to suddenly endorse what they were against. And then there's nothing left to run on to defeat Trump.