Democrats need to be an opposition party, not a minority party.

[pbmus]

More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump. More Americans voted for Democratic Senate candidates than for Republican Senate candidates.

So why aren’t Democrats acting like it? Why aren’t they trying to force Republicans, the media, and the emergent Trump White House to act like it?

This is not an argument that the election was rigged, or that Trump’s win is somehow illegitimate. The president is chosen by the Electoral College. The Senate is built to favor small states. Gerrymandering is legal. America does not decide national elections by simply tallying up votes.

But the will of the voters still matters, or at least it should. Thus far, Democrats have slipped comfortably into the position of minority party. They aren’t demanding that Trump put forward compromise candidates for key posts. They aren’t laying out a proactive agenda that would serve as their basis for negotiations with Trump and the Republicans. And they aren’t, in their public messaging, emphasizing that most voters opposed Trump’s agenda, and that both Democrats and Republicans need to take that seriously.

Democrats won the most votes in the election. They should act like it. - Vox - www.vox.com
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/22/13708648/democrats-won-popular-vote

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Somebody on the democratic side better grab a pair and start standing up to the Trumpster .

[bravenak]

1. We are the opposition party

We got two million more votes. Never let them forget that for even one day. Beat them up with it endlessly.

The Party leaders are always slightly wan and weak in dealing with Republicans, always expecting them to act like grownups. We are the party, the people, the voters. We can always replace people who work with Deadly Don, in the midterms. If we keep up the pressure of ridiculing him, we can keep him busy enough to not make a solid decision on anything.

Our job is to fight him a to give our leaders the will to do so. Best for us to harass the hell out of them so they know better than to sell out.

[pbmus]

2. And amen, let's hear our leaders...

[LWolf]

3. Yes.

Of course, Democrats needed to be opposing bad policy all along, regardless of where or whom it came from.

But better late than never.

[guillaumeb]

4. When President Obama won in 2008 with 365 votes, the GOP immediately declared

that he had no mandate. The GOP and the media suggested that President Obama nominated consensus (acceptable to the GOP)candidates.

When Bush was declared the winner in 2000, he immediately declared that he had a mandate.

And that is how US politics works.