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In reply to the discussion: Democrats better embrace progressive millennials or get used to losing [View all]CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)While they didn't call out Maxine Waters by name, their message was clear, "Play nice."
Like it or not, the dems are perceived as weak & this is one reason why. Dem leadership should call out the other side! "You want civility, start from the top. You want civility, get your president under control & then we'll talk." That's what the message should have been, not, "Okay, we'll be good silent dems like we always are, & even take one of our own to task, & work for unity from sea to shining sea*." The Con's laughing at their pathetic civility comments as he takes a sledge hammer to our country.
* Pelosi's actual tweet: In the crucial months ahead, we must strive to make America beautiful again. Trumps daily lack of civility has provoked responses that are predictable but unacceptable. As we go forward, we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea.
And a response to that tweet: If you run on unity from sea to seas rather than stopping the evil of the Republican Party, youll leave Congress in their hands, one commenter replied.