What should Democrats do if they win?

So all respect to Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, but I think this is wrong.

My sense, what I will encourage my colleagues to not do, especially those who have more fire in their belly in this area, is don't be impeaching anybody, let's just get back to work and maybe we can come to compromises to actually fund parts of USAID.

Maybe we can do some of this work and be much more able to move the ball forward and get through the two years after that.

I'm not interested in being in a confrontation with Donald Trump, I can be, I have been, it's not gonna stop me, but I would rather move the ball forward and through the benefit of the American people.

And if we can do it in a way that allows him to save face and he doesn't stop us, then that's better for everybody all around.

It is true that Americans are deeply dissatisfied with the laziness of Congress, with the extent to which Congress has not really accomplished anything.

And it certainly is not doing anything to improve people's lives.

That the Congress under President Trump, the Republican-led Congress and Trump, have actually done everything they could to make people's lives more difficult.

It is true.

that should Democrats win both chambers of Congress, that they will need to actually do constructive things for no other reason than that there are budgets to pass, right? There's actual concrete things to do.

But if Democrats win Congress, it will not principally be because the American public is desperate for Congress, desperate for Democrats to get down to kitchen table issues, to use that phrase.

If Democrats win Congress, it will be primarily because the American public is very angry about the current situation.

They're pissed.

They're furious.

There is real and deep-seated anger at the president of this administration, at these people.

again, among Democratic voters and among independent and regular voters.

And to the extent that Democrats are well-positioned to win both chambers of Congress, to the extent that this is actually the worst national environment for an incumbent president in 50 years, quite possibly ever, or at least going back to Truman, To the extent that that is the case, it is because people are broadly angry with the lawlessness and the corruption and the sheer chaos and insanity of this administration and its enablers in Congress.

If Democrats win office and then decide that they're not going to respond to it, if Democrats win office and decide that their job is to tell everyone to calm down, And to let them work with President Trump to pass bills.

Let them essentially, what did Senator Duckworth say? Let Trump save face.

If Democrats decide that that is what they're going to do, that is what their task is, that's what they were elected to do, then they deserve whatever comes next after that.

If the party fractures in anger, they deserve it.

They deserve everything that comes after that.

Right.

Right.

That's what they want.

So all respect to Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, but I think this is wrong.

My sense, what I will encourage my colleagues to not do, especially those who have more fire in their belly in this area, is don't be impeaching anybody, let's just get back to work and maybe we can come to compromises to actually fund parts of USAID.

Maybe we can do some of this work and be much more able to move the ball forward and get through the two years after that.

I'm not interested in being in a confrontation with Donald Trump, I can be, I have been, it's not gonna stop me, but I would rather move the ball forward and through the benefit of the American people.

And if we can do it in a way that allows him to save face and he doesn't stop us, then that's better for everybody all around.

It is true that Americans are deeply dissatisfied with the laziness of Congress, with the extent to which Congress has not really accomplished anything.

And it certainly is not doing anything to improve people's lives.

That the Congress under President Trump, the Republican-led Congress and Trump, have actually done everything they could to make people's lives more difficult.

It is true.

that should Democrats win both chambers of Congress, that they will need to actually do constructive things for no other reason than that there are budgets to pass, right? There's actual concrete things to do.

But if Democrats win Congress, it will not principally be because the American public is desperate for Congress, desperate for Democrats to get down to kitchen table issues, to use that phrase.

If Democrats win Congress, it will be primarily because the American public is very angry about the current situation.

They're pissed.

They're furious.

There is real and deep-seated anger at the president of this administration, at these people.

again, among Democratic voters and among independent and regular voters.

And to the extent that Democrats are well-positioned to win both chambers of Congress, to the extent that this is actually the worst national environment for an incumbent president in 50 years, quite possibly ever, or at least going back to Truman, To the extent that that is the case, it is because people are broadly angry with the lawlessness and the corruption and the sheer chaos and insanity of this administration and its enablers in Congress.

If Democrats win office and then decide that they're not going to respond to it, if Democrats win office and decide that their job is to tell everyone to calm down, And to let them work with President Trump to pass bills.

Let them essentially, what did Senator Duckworth say? Let Trump save face.

If Democrats decide that that is what they're going to do, that is what their task is, that's what they were elected to do, then they deserve whatever comes next after that.

If the party fractures in anger, they deserve it.

They deserve everything that comes after that.

Right.

Right.

That's what they want.