I don’t know why Tom Carper and Chris Coons don’t get it. Where is the urgency? Trump is just another President for Carper to cut deals with on behalf of banks. Coons is just AWOL.
Fortunately Democratic voters have a sense of urgency. They are turning out in droves to oppose Trump’s GOP. Cynics will say that Connor Lamb was a conservative, and that Democrats didn’t really gain much, but that misses the point. It mistakes the movement of the clock’s minute hand for the whirling internal mechanism that moved it.
But one of the ways in which Democrats benefitted from the massive countermobilization that formed immediately after the 2016 election is an unusually high number of people willing to rearrange their lives around the goal of saving their country from an unfit president. In many cases, the possibly corny and self-serving narrative of the “military veteran called to serve their country once again” actually applies. Democrats have more or less unanimously regarded a Trump presidency and a pliant Republican Congress as a national emergency.
