Dems who lashed out at Trump for being 'threat to democracy' flip script with last-minute delay tactics

American voters overwhelmingly elected President Donald Trump to transportation retired his "Make America Great Again" docket contempt Democrats calling him a "threat to democracy." Now that Trump is backmost successful the White House, Dems are delaying cardinal furniture appointments and vowing to "blow this spot up" successful the sanction of democracy.

Several Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are calling for a halt to each of Trump's furniture nominations. Protests hosted by lawmakers person erupted successful Washington, D.C., this week arsenic Democrats rally against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 

"God d---it unopen down the Senate!" Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., said during an anti-DOGE protestation successful Washington, D.C., Tuesday. "We are astatine war!"

While Democrats spent 2024 promising Americans they were the enactment who would support ideology and uphold the regularisation of instrumentality successful a post-Jan. 6 world, they are dancing to the bushed of a caller drum successful 2025 by practicing civilian disobedience. 

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Democrats rallied against DOGE and Elon Musk Tuesday. (Getty/AP)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., told the assemblage Tuesday, "We are present to combat back." 

"We are gonna beryllium successful your face, we are gonna beryllium connected your a--es and we are going to marque definite you recognize what ideology looks like, and this ain’t it," Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, added. 

Democrats person doubled down connected their telephone to enactment this week aft House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Americans to "fight" Trump's docket "in the streets" past week. 

"We person to basal up and protest," Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass, said astatine different rally successful Washington, D.C., Wednesday. "When we travel backmost present the adjacent time, determination should beryllium hundreds of thousands and millions of radical descending connected Washington, D.C."

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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks astatine a rally successful enactment of USAID connected the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Feb. 5, 2025, successful Washington, D.C.   (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"We volition combat their usurpation of civilian work laws. We volition combat their usurpation of civilian rights laws. We volition combat their violations of separation of powers. We volition combat their violations of our Constitution of the United States of America. We volition not unopen up. We volition instrumentality up. We volition emergence up," Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., added. 

Democrats held an all-night league Wednesday protesting Trump’s nominee to pb the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 

Russell Vought, who served arsenic OMB manager during Trump’s archetypal term, was a cardinal designer of Project 2025. Democratic candidates and surrogates during the 2024 run rhythm pointed to Project 2025 arsenic impervious of Trump’s "threat to democracy." Trump maintained helium had thing to bash with it. 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Vought is simply a "horrible, unsafe man" astatine the rally Tuesday.

An worker of the U.S. Agency for International Development who wished to stay anonymous protests extracurricular of the USAID office Feb. 3, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

Democratic leaders and their constituents person spent each week protesting successful large cities crossed the country. From Texas to California, protesters are speaking retired against Trump’s ICE raids and national authorities layoffs and the administration’s stance that determination are 2 genders. 

Despite the Democrats' protests, the Trump medication said it is pursuing done connected the docket the American radical voted for, and those who "incite violence" should beryllium held accountable. 

"President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American radical to marque this authorities much efficient," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said. "For Democratic officials to incite unit and promote Americans to instrumentality to the streets is incredibly alarming, and they should beryllium held accountable for that rhetoric.

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"If you heard that benignant of violent, enticing rhetoric from our broadside of the aisle, from Republican leaders connected Capitol Hill, I deliberation determination would beryllium a batch much outrage successful this country today. It's unacceptable."