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Here’s a possibility nobody is talking about after Trump’s crushing midterm defeat:
What if Democrats don’t spend the next two years fighting Trump?
What if they spend them flattering him?
Democrats now control Congress. Conventional wisdom says Trump will veto their agenda.
Maybe. But Trump has never been a conventional partisan president. He has never cared much about the Republican Party, MAGA ideology, or conservative orthodoxy except when they served him.
What Trump cares …
to make history by signing them.
Tell him Republicans could never have accomplished these things. Tell him he can shock Washington, defy both parties, and leave behind a domestic legacy that presidents will be compared with for generations.
Progressives may scoff. Why?
Trump has no reelection campaign left. He owes congressional Republicans nothing. His political future is almost over. If praise and legacy really motivate him as much as everything we’ve witnessed suggests, why wouldn’t …
@shoq Trump is far too racist to sign the Voting Rights Act, not to mention the only way he would hurt Republican future prospects would be if he felt like he were scorned by them and needed to get even.
Democrats at least try to exploit that?
Would he sign all four? Probably not. Would he sign any of them? Who knows.
But the alternative is waiting until 2028, electing a Democratic president, AND hoping Democrats still control both houses of Congress.
The bills should be passed regardless. So put them on Trump’s desk—and give him every psychological incentive imaginable to sign them.
There is virtually no downside to trying.
Sometimes the shortest route to progressive legislation might …
run straight through Donald Trump’s ego.
about is Trump: praise, attention, winning, and above all, his place in history.
So Democrats should offer him something Republicans no longer can: the chance to leave office claiming he was one of the most consequential presidents in American history.
Put four enormously popular, historic bills on his desk—including a new Voting Rights Act, restoration of the ACA and Medicaid support Republicans rolled back, and Medicare for All.
Then don’t just dare him to veto them. Publicly invite him …