They might not, or they may work in the recurring fiction of “paid democratic activists.”

Honestly? I think it’s about both.
Demographics are changing, and the conservative patriarchy is trying to hang onto power.
At the expense of everyone else.

Well, the Muskrat already spoke at an AfD conference a few days after the inauguration.
He’s not trying to hide anything.
So unfortunately he’s WORKING on the glaring bad stuff.

I fear they’ll just get someone on an H1B visa to do it.
Or a woefully underpaid prison laborer.

I think establishment Dems are still clinging to the notion of “we’ll vote for good ideas, when the Republicans have them,” but those bits of unity (and sanity!) are rarer and rarer these days- um, years- um, decades?

I hope Canada has the moxy to push back. Nothing says “the administration has suddenly changed course” quite like “millions of angry voters calling their lawmakers at once.”

Somehow I worry that there would be at least one NYT columnist pushing this same line of “logic.” ☹️

With respect, if you’ve been following the hearings for The Orange One’s nominees even a little bit, there’s ALREADY stuff to be outraged about.