Democrats Are Acting Too Normal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : Trump took time to recognize and praise all three of those men in his speech.
63% : Slotkin gave a good, normal speech in which she laid out some of her party's issues with Trump on the economy and national security.
51% : Slotkin is a centrist -- as she noted, she won in areas that also voted for Trump -- and her victory in Michigan proved that centrism can be a powerful anchor against extremists.
38% : Instead, they sat there and took it, their opposition to Trump a kind of hodgepodge of rage, bemusement, boredom, and irritation.
26% : So why not ask that question -- directly and without needless throat clearing about the importance and necessity of change? Slotkin's response reflected the fractured approach of the Democrats to Trump in general.
21% : But when Trump referred to Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts as "Pocahontas," they could have left en bloc, declaring once they were outside that they would take no part in any further demeaning of the House chamber -- or, for that matter, of American democracy.
19% : Is it an effective rallying cry either to older voters or to a new generation to say, in effect, that Reagan -- even now a polarizing figure -- would have hated Trump?

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