A prominent anti-Trump commentator is urging Democrats to spend the next two years focused on one goal: damaging President Donald Trump’s political standing as thoroughly as possible.
Jonathan Last, an editor at the Bulwark, the media outlet founded by Bill Kristol, wrote in a November 11 piece headlined “Destroy All Monsters: This isn’t the time for negotiation. It’s the time for ruthless aggression” that Democrats should “have one mission and one mission only for the next two years.”
Destroy Trump’s political standing. You think he’s finished? That he’s had enough? No. Hit him again.
Last also argued that the pressure campaign should extend to Republicans in Congress who continue to support Trump.
The job of this next Democratic Congress is to make Trump pay for his unpopular actions and then make Republicans pay for staying with him. Relentlessly. Remorselessly. Democrats only get to build a better world later if they get this job done first.
Last has been critical of Trump’s populist wing of the Republican Party and has written in favor of higher levels of immigration, arguing that waves of immigrants bring work ethic and ambition that keeps American society from growing “decadent, lazy, spoiled.”
Similar sentiments were voiced by Democratic strategist James Carville in a video released in November, in which he described what he says motivates the Democratic base.
The main thing the Democratic base wants, I can report this to you, it’s not Medicare for all. It’s not DEI. It’s not any of that shit. What they want is to humiliate Donald Trump. That’s right! The Democratic base, more than anything, wants to humiliate that son of a bitch at every point that we possibly can. We want to watch him wither in anguish, in misery, in pain.
Carville also called for scrutiny of people around Trump, saying, “And for God’s sakes, follow those idiot kids that he has. Follow the idiots that are surrounding him. Follow the people in the United States government that are engaged in treasonous behavior.”
Last, who holds a biology degree, is among a group of conservative-turned-anti-Trump commentators, often labeled “Never Trumpers,” who have aligned with Democrats in opposing the president and his movement within the GOP.
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