Democrats — You Can’t Lead From Behind

This is trench work, not a seminar. Lead, or step aside.

The Gist: Democrats can’t keep treating politics like a debate club while the other side runs trench warfare. We need rapid-response teams, coordinated grassroots tools, and one voice with one message. Getting a third of the country into the streets every weekend will be very hard — but it isn’t impossible. Don’t get the two confused.

Where are our leaders?

Why aren’t our congressional reps doing the hard work of organizing?

Why don’t we have ready-response teams set up by department or issue, staffed with volunteers — attorneys, media folks, policy people — so that every executive order or outrageous statement is met with a strong response within hours, not days?

Why aren’t they building grassroots action district by district — flyers, point-counterpoint arguments, outreach ideas, local organizing kits? One website where grassroots groups anywhere in the country could log in and grab the same fact sheets, the same graphics, the sam…