At the midway point of the Trump presidency the Democrats have
nothing to show in the way of meaningful resistance. The Women’s March
has been exposed as a fraudulent get-out-the-vote effort that was
dispatched soon after the mid-term election. Now the Democrats have been
reduced to using curse words in what passes for opposition to Donald
Trump.
Trump’s shutdown of the government in the dispute over the border
wall is an opportunity for the Democrats to show their mettle. But they
can’t fight what they never really opposed. They may call it a fence or a
barrier or some other euphemistic term but they have voted to support
the same thing over the years. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama requested
and got funding for border walls in the past. They are boxed in by their
own past misdeeds and now present nothing but acquiescence to right
wing tropes and call themselves a resistance force.
-- Margaret Kimberley, "Freedom Rider: Phony Resistance Can’t Beat Trump" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).