Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right

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The ongoing government shutdown is the first real strategic test of Democrats in Trump's second term. It is the first time when they have overcome enough of their internal divisions to choose a fight, choose a message, choose a set of demands. And actually take a risk. Behind this fight are a bunch of strategic schisms in the party over whether or not it makes sense to confront Trump in this way, to use what leverage they have to take this kind of risk, schisms over whether or not to fight on lawlessness, authoritarianism, democracy, or to only focus on pocketbook issues. And now we are in the shutdown and the road out of it.

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