Democrats Try To Navigate New Positioning For Trump 2.0

Lean in, or lean away? It depends.

The early attitudes from Democrats toward the new Trump administration are difficult to judge in a vacuum, and that’s the context we’re currently in a dozen days before the second inaugural. Last time around, it was only after the combination hits of the Women’s March and the manufactured Russiagate freakout that we saw elected Democrats put in a position where anything less than loud resistance was unacceptable. So here, in the in-between time before Trump returns to the White House, the positioning may not accurately reflect where things will be a month from now.

That being said, there are signals — and they already reflect a different attitude from some Democrats.