With sixteen months to go before voters go back to the polls to cast ballots in what will be a referendum on Trump's second term, there are some signs showing that Democrats might wind up doing better than the poll numbers we are seeing at the moment would indicate. Frankly, the poll numbers indicate that the American electorate is ignorant and unaware of what Congress is doing, and they are also frustrated by what they see as a lack of anyone actually doing anything except spending an inordinate amount of time raising money for their own campaign. Congress is not popular right now.

And for that matter, neither is the President, who is getting the worst polling numbers any President has received at this point in their term. If these polls are accurate, once again that's a big "if", we are able to say that two-thirds of American voters are now against him. And I'd say that's a good guess, given the fact that we don't know everything we think we do about the 2024 election, and by observing what has been happening around the country with regard to resistance.

Let me clarify one thing for the sake of this discussion. "Resistance to Trump," and "the Democratic Party" are not synonymous. Yes, there are a lot of grass roots Democrats who are helping form the base of those who are resisting this convicted felon demagogue who sits in the White House now, but the movement has gone beyond the Democratic party's ability to control it, or to provide a political foundation for it. It is based on opposition to the things this President is doing to undermine and destroy the Constitution and the democracy that established and ordained it.

The other party has handed us the biggest political favor they could have done, in getting a lot of publicity for a bill of which the vast majority of Americans, something like 2/3 of them, don't like and believe is a mistake. Democrats cannot affort the luxury of sitting back and protecting their own jobs and turf, but must, instead, make bold, risky moves to protect our Democratic government and keep it going.