The Democrats need a new opposition strategy

The fact that Donald Trump and his government can virtually govern is also due to the weakness of the Democrats. The party is divided into two camps and struggles for the right course. A visit to Pennsylvania reveals what it means if a real political opposition is missing.

In decline in the polls, disunited in Congress, apparently still sounded, the Democrats and their independent co-ops are trying to remobilize their base. ...

Challenging Trump’s Base on What They’re Doing to the Soul of America (This Weekend's Op/Ed)

This piece is appearing in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012, and where I have been publishing a weekly op/ed column for the past twelve years, attempting to awaken to...

Like a tornado, Donald Trump is raging through the first months of his second term. From ‘Signalgate’ to blood-red stock market figures and the dismantling of government agencies: there is no shortage of reason and yet the Democrats still fail to make a fist from the opposition. Telegraaf correspondent Paul Jansen sees how the party has completely lost its way after the resounding loss of November last year.

The Democratic Party in the US is as unpopular as never before. For the party base, the reason is clear: the timid handling of the Trump administration's policies. But a change of strategy makes the party leadership difficult.

In front of the White House's compressor roller, the main figures on the American left remain with the absent subscribers and struggle to offer an alternative to the trembling mirage.