To Fight or Not to Fight

Feb 7 2025 The Washington Post

Democrats, don’t save Trump from himself

Informative piece, and starts with listing all the laws the new administration has managed to violate in under three weeks.

What follows are the many ways Republicans are doing nothing about what “… has been the advent calendar of illegality,” as Norman Eisen puts it.

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The Republicans have the votes to run the country, let them.

Unsurprisingly I agree with this piece, and my advice to Democrats is not to fight this fight. Let the Republicans govern, and decide, and own, and be responsible for what they do. And above all, sit this one out, and do not help them.

Let the voters give their verdict.

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The spineless Republicans who do nothing about this, remind me of those who were called Mitläufer after WWII in West Germany. For those who do not speak German, the word translates to follower, a fellow-traveller, or a tag-along.

One definition of a Mitläufer is:

A person who was not charged with crimes but whose involvement with the Party was considered so significant that they could not be exonerated for the crimes of the Regime.

I think you know what Party and Regime that refers to.