I have seen many people that are just throwing their hands up when it comes to the things the Trump and his band of minor thugs are doing to our country….I have even heard people say what can we do?

There are many theories and opinions on what can be done to counter the Trumpian agenda….

As the new year begins, any honest progressive knows the political outlook is bleak. But if we’re going to limit the damage that President-elect Donald Trump inflicts on the country, then despair is not an option. The real question, as Democracy Alliance President Gara LaMarche recently said, “is how you fight intelligently and strategically when every house is burning down.”

Indeed, with Trump and Republicans in Congress aggressively pushing a right-wing agenda, progressives will need to invest their resources and attention where they can do the most good — both now and over the next four years. With that in mind, here are three steps to take to resist and rebuild as the Trump administration gets underway.

First, while strong national leadership is certainly important, progressives must recognize that the most significant resistance to Trump won’t take place in Washington. It’s going to happen in the streets led by grass-roots activists, and in communities, city halls and statehouses nationwide.

How progressives can fight against Trump's agenda

Believe me since the 1970s when I was wholly involved in Left politics, there is always something we can….

The administrative spectacle now unfolding in Washington exceeds all expectations. How should we respond? What is appropriate? I remember Abbie Hoffman and the general inclination of those New Left times, and other situations as well, when people tried to extinguish evil with ridicule and satire, with facts and debate, or with ridicule and facts both at once.

But what Donald Trump and his allies undertake, with who knows what precise calculations, is beyond the beyond. How should we respond to that?

Imagine you hear his press secretary. She says she exists to tell the truth. About a minute later she brazenly lies. She says $50 million goes from Joe Biden to Hamas for condoms that Hamas then turns into bombs. Could any satirist come up with that? How should we respond to that?

Or suppose you hear Trump’s medical guru who accurately says processed foods kill kids, and two minutes later delivers bubble gum-level commentary that, despite having no medical provenance, would bring back polio and measles. How should we respond to that?

What’s Our Appropriate Response to Donald’s Insanity?

You want to fight?

Then join the Progressive movement and learn what to do…

Politically, this is surely a strange and disturbing time, but one of its oddest, most discouraging features is to watch Donald Trump operate as an agent of systemic change while his panicky opponents try to defend an obsolescent status quo.  Like Franklin D.  Roosevelt’s right-wing enemies, they cry for help from the courts to prevent an activist, mission-driven president from violating established political and moral norms.

Help! Trump is using all his presidential powers, including some that he may not constitutionally possess, and has reduced Congress’s role to that of a cheering section.

 Help! Trump is slashing the federal bureaucracy, closing Congressionally created agencies, and throwing lots of good people out of work. 

Help! Trump is changing U.S. foreign policy, redefining enemies and allies, and cuddling up to dictators.

Help!  Trump is putting pressure on the press, the schools, and the cultural establishment to adopt conservative nationalist cultural values.    

And so on.  All these charges are arguably accurate, but what they really amount to is an allegation that Trump and his cohorts are politically serious actors – representatives of a mass movement for change – who are committing the ab-normal act of doing what they promised they would do if they took power.  As the Democrats’ cries for help mount to the skies, it is unclear whether what they are complaining about is the content of the MAGA program or Trump’s disrespect for established procedures.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/20/learning-from-trump-how-progressives-can-become-the-party-of-change/

Dems need to grow a pair and fight for the people they are pretending to care about….

It’s easy to be disgusted with the Democratic party right now. Donald Trump is running roughshod over the rule of law, treating the US constitution like toilet paper. His trusty pal Elon Musk is the arsonist in chief, burning down worthy democratic institutions and installing his minions in the heart of government where they have gained access to citizens’ private information. Much of what’s happening is illegal and unconstitutional.

And the Democrats, mostly, look less like an opposition party and more like stunned bystanders. As my Guardian colleague Moira Donegan put it, they are “out of touch, opportunistic and cowardly”.

But not all. Some Democrats in a new generation are punching back hard, and in so doing, showing their colleagues how to overcome their reputation for spineless dithering.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/heres-how-democrats-should-fight-back-against-trump

The DNC has a new leader and the promise to take back the working class….we will see just how serious they are on this dream….most are too deep in special interest pockets to do much more than collect their blood money for the next election….and the working class is staring poverty and hunger in the face while they talk and promise and do very little.

Just recently James Carville, Dem startegist, tells Dem how to handle Trump…

Democratic strategist James Carville offers an unexpected strategy for his party in these early days of the Trump administration: “roll over and play dead.” In his New York Times essay, Carville writes that it’s futile to go “toe to toe” with the president at the moment. But he’s equally sure that Trump and his “incompetent” Cabinet will crater in popularity relatively soon because of their policies and take the Republican party down with them. Carville calls it “the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party,” likening it to a military “tactical pause” or a boxer’s “rope-a-dope” tactic.

An example of how this would play out is in the upcoming budget talks, in which “the most radical thing we can do is nothing at all.” The GOP can’t decide what it wants, he writes, and Democrats should let them duke it out internally without entering the fray.

• “Simply step away and let ’em flirt with a default. Just when they’ve pushed themselves to the brink, and it appears they could collapse the global economy—come in and save the day. Be the competent party and not the chaos party.”

Carville figures the “Trump honeymoon” will be over in the next 30 days or by Memorial Day at the latest. Then “we start turning the tide.”

(Read the full column.)

Do nothing?

Something the Dems excel at….doing nothing.

The Dems have been doing that for 30 years and look what it has wrought.

The Left needs another Eugene Debs….a fireball that lives his promises.

Any thoughts on this?

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