US protesters call for Democrats to face Trump and 'fight, fight, fight with every tool available'

[BumRushDaShow]

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Source: The Guardian

Mon 21 Jul 2025 09.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 21 Jul 2025 09.33 EDT


Democrats need to take bolder and more aggressive actions to oppose the Trump administration, protesters across the US told the Guardian during a day of rallies last week honoring the late congressman John Lewis. Lewis, a civil rights leader and Democratic congressman from Georgia who died five years ago, called for people to participate in non-violent “good trouble, necessary trouble” to advance their causes.

While some elected Democrats have escalated their tactics against Donald Trump and his administration – delivering multi-hour speeches, risking arrest, and physically interposing themselves as a disruption – protesters said they want to see a more united, organized, and aggressive opposition party.

“There’s a lot more that I would like to see from them,” said Jace Snyder, a weather research technician from Lovejoy, Georgia who attended the protest in Atlanta. Snyder is particularly concerned about the Trump administration’s cuts to federal agencies including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (Noaa).

“If they have to shut down the entire legislative process until the Republicans fold, okay, shut it down… Shut down the Senate. Don’t pass anything. Do whatever is needed to make it so that these cuts don’t happen to vital agencies.” “We’ve gone beyond the ‘be polite to your political opponents,’ phase, because they’re not giving us the same courtesy,” Snyder added. “Fight, fight, fight with every single tool available you can.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/trump-democrats-good-trouble-protests

[LisaM]

1. Non Democrats blaming Democrats.

Seems about par for the course.

[PSPS]

2. The difference between democrats and republicans has been diminishing for some time

I remember it being said decades ago that "democrats are the same as republicans, just less racist."
Now, however, with the onslaught of the fire hose of dark money, both parties have to curry favor with the same set of donors: billionaires who don't want to start paying taxes.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Indeed

No matter which side wins, the billionaires get what they want.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. I am a Democrat

and I want Dem leadership to fight. Sternly-worded letters do not count.

[markpkessinger]

6. Refusing to hear and take seriously this criticism is a recipe for continued electoral defeat! n/t

[hay rick]

5. I want OTHER PEOPLE to save democracy for me.

The problem isn't fascist Republicans doing fascist things, it's Democrats, especially elected Democrats, not doing enough to stop them. [sarcasm]

I'm disappointed that The Guardian, which I have supported financially, used this rally to troll Democrats. Their reporting uncovered this gem:

Mary Baird, who traveled to the Washington protest from North Carolina, said Democrats need to remember that they are ultimately accountable to their voters.

“We don’t really want to vote out the Democrats but we will,” she said. “So don’t think that just because you’re a Democrat that your seat is safe, because we’re sick of this fascist shit.”

[markpkessinger]

7. I don't think that's it at all . . .

Look, Democratic voters have no control over what the Republicans do or don't do. But they maybe can influence, and expect to be heard by, elected Democrats. They want to see elected Democrats do more than they have been doing. It is a thoroughly appropriate ask!

[Omaha Steve]

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