Whole Hog Politics: What do Democrats really want?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : Attempting to show that she was a real Rust Belt moderate, she got an Oval Office audience with Trump, who praised her as having "done an excellent job" and as a "very good person."
78% : Conspicuous corporatist Joe Biden learned to love the Green New Deal.
68% : She probably wanted what Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) got with his trip to Mar-a-Lago at the very beginning of Trump 2.0.
64% : Trump also enjoys an advantage over Pritzker in that the current president seems to be about the same height as Obama, which is a much larger frame on which to carry a weight probably similar to Pritzker's.
56% : Since then, Trump has taken office and governed much more aggressively than he did at the start of his first term. ...
55% : [Average includes: Quinnipiac: 41 percent approve - 53 percent disapprove; Ipsos/Reuters: 43 percent approve - 53 percent disapprove; Wall Street Journal: 46 percent approve - 51 percent disapprove; TIPP: 44 percent approve - 45 percent disapprove; Marquette Law: 46 percent approve - 54 percent disapprove] A tale of two issues Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the following issues? The New York Times: "For more than a decade, scientists have chased the idea of reviving extinct species, a process sometimes called de-extinction.
53% : My fear was that if Schimel won, the TrumpMusk mandate would be at a volume set at 11 (Spinal Tap) and crush the newly sprouting green roots of non-Trumpian conservatism, which would nauseate me.
50% : In response to Mr. Paxton's announcement, the Cornyn campaign pointed to the senator's voting record, which it said aligned with President Trump more than nearly every other senator.
50% : -- Russ Sohr, Green Bay, Wisconsin Mr. Sohr, You point to the essential conundrum for the modern Democratic Party: Can they win over enough anti-populist conservatives, or at least get them to not vote for populistic Republicans, to form a useful coalition?
48% : Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) has made a habit of defying progressive orthodoxies in the Centennial State with a technocratic, limited-government approach, and he did not miss the chance to paint Witmer's support for tariffs as support for Trump.
47% : Through the combined effects of partisan primary elections, siloed media and legislative gerrymandering, we've replaced the constitutional separation of powers with the power of party unity.
40% : This was the period in which 2020 Democratic hopefuls lurched to the left, embracing ideas like "Medicare for All," the Green New Deal and intense criminal justice reform.
39% : Some in the party say their efforts to win back independent voters could get a boost from a simple dynamic: allowing Trump to do political damage to himself and the Republican brand with his unpredictable and chaotic governing style. ...
39% : The most notable exception being President Trump, who has learned a variety of tricks to disguise his form, most notably wearing structured business suits that make him look like he's wearing a navy blue refrigerator box.
39% : Witness the debate on tariffs, in which Democrats feel the strong tug toward free trade from affluent, educated voters in the suburbs, the heart of their new coalition.
37% : What rank-and-file Democrats really wanted was someone who could beat Trump, not the vanguard of radical change.
36% : The pain was evident on her face as she stood by while Trump fired off executive actions targeting his political enemies and riffed to the press about his own genius at tariff negotiations.
36% : "While sanctions (Russia, Iran) can have a geopolitical national security role, it should always be considered eyes wide open that sanctions harm both ourself and others," he said in a statement after Whitmer tried to massage her points of agreement with Trump.
36% : " PRIME CUTS Dems agree with MAGA: Let Trump be Trump: The Wall Street Journal: "Democrats have struggled since their election drubbing in November to find a successful formula to challenge President Trump.
25% : Seldom does Trump allow himself to be photographed out of uniform, and in media appearances avoids ever being shot in profile.
16% : Some combination of bad staff work and bad judgment on her part led Whitmer to be used as a political prop who lent some nominal bipartisanship to an episode that Democrats would very much like Trump to have sole ownership of.
16% : Mr. Paxton, a firebrand conservative litigant who has sought to strongly align himself with President Trump, had been teasing a run against Mr. Cornyn for weeks. ...

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