Politics
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March 25, 2025
With Democrats failing to put up much of a fight against the Trump administration, favorability ratings have plummeted to an all-time low.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) emerges from a Senate Democratic Caucus meeting at the Capitol.
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As the Trump White House continues its long destructive march through the institutions—and vast tranches of Americans’ personal data—the Democratic Party appears to be frozen in a permanent tableau vivant of Beltway pearl-clutching. The rank politicization of the FBI and the Justice Department as MAGA-enforcing franchises, the serial demolition of USAID, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, and the Department of Education, the harrowing detention and seeming torture of legal Venezuelan immigrants—all these antidemocratic outrages, and scores of others, typically trigger among Democratic leaders one variation or another of one of the least compelling refrains of the 1.0 Trump resistance: “This is not who we are”—or to cite
