They have to present Americans with a true alternative; they have to show that they believe in something as much as the GOP believes in MAGA
Weekends are important. The labor movement has given us many wonderful things, and the sanctity of a two-day break from work is chief among them. In fact, three-day weekends would be even better; a four-day workweek should be the rule.
But, like pretty much everything, there are exceptions to the rule. And if your job is something like “Democratic member of Congress” or “senior aide to a senator from a blue state” and what’s happening over the weekend is a “constitutional crisis,” I’m sorry, but it’s time to get your ass up and fucking work. The concept of a weekend will no longer exist if you let Donald Trump and Elon Musk steamroll you and build their horrific version of America.
Take, for example, this past weekend. Less than two weeks into Trump’s second term, Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” spent Saturday and Sunday bull-in-a-china-shopping through various federal departments. Two senior staffers at USAID were suspended because they refused to give Musk’s DOGE bozos—Gen Z men who look like they’re named shit like Braeden—access to classified information; the 19-to-24-year-old “staffers” got ahold of U.S. foreign aid details anyway. They also got access to social security numbers over at the Treasury Department. According to local news outlet D.C. Media Group, other apparent DOGE henchmen who self-identified as “data miners” attempted to enter the Office of Personnel Management, but were blocked by 100 or so federal workers who occupied the plaza in front of the office all Sunday afternoon.
This seemed like a prime moment for Democrats to step up; in our two-party system, the party that isn’t in power is the opposition party, so Democrats’ primary job right now is to oppose the Trump administration. Plus, they spent months promising us that Trump (and Musk) are a severe threat to the future of our country—so I’d imagine at least one of them must have an idea for preventing that threat from reaching its worst possibilities. Right?
Unfortunately, Democrats had a characteristically, brutally ineffective response, tweeting concernedly about the development 13 hours after it began and telling a reporter that a “bipartisan group” would meet to discuss the matter “tomorrow” (that is, today, Monday). Never mind that by the end of Monday, it’s extremely likely that Musk’s merry band of Gen Z losers will have begun dismantling another crucial federal department. (Employees of USAID were told not to come to work today.)
This, horrifically, appears to be the plan; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told Semafor over the weekend that Democrats are “not going to fall for the Bannon ‘flood the zone,’” which Semafor characterized as “Steve Bannon’s call for the president to blitz Democrats with orders and executive-branch maneuvers.” Instead, Schumer said he’s going to just wait for Trump to “screw up.” To be the most senior Senate Democrat and proudly proclaim you’re going to wait for the famously impulsive, punitive president to do an oopsie… man, I’ll have what Chuck’s having.