Opinion, E.J. Dionne Jr.

Democrats, Trump has given you a mission. Accept all of it.

The republic is under siege. What can be done?

February 9, 2025

Which means that a lot of what once passed for strategy is useless now. Democrats cannot pretend that business-as-usual behavior is appropriate to this moment.

They cannot “choose their battles” because what’s at stake is not just this or that policy but whether we will endure as a free republic in which presidents recognize they are not monarchs.

It’s absurd to say of Trump “we will work with him where we can” when the project on which they’d be “working with him” involves shattering the rule of law and making it impossible for government workers to do the jobs Americans expect them to carry out.

Source Links: Opinion | Democrats, forget 2024. Defending democracy in 2025 is what matters. – The Washington Post