What should Democrats do to “rehabilitate” themselves over the next four years while Trump is president?

Not a thing.

Not a fucking thing.

I mean, I might tone down the politically correct rhetoric a bit, which has clearly alienated roughly half the country.

But other than that, just get out of the way and let the Republicans try to govern.

It’s already clear that the MAGA wing will fight the billionaire (“DOGE”) wing, and that they’re going to tear each other apart.

But let Trump levy his various tariffs. Nobody can stop him anyway. 

Let Trump try to deport 11 million undocumented farmworkers, and eldercare workers, and restaurant workers, and construction workers. He has nowhere to put them. Private prisons and other facilities where you could hold people are already essentially maxed out. 

And see what that does to the economy.

Just let Trump be Trump. Don’t get in his way. And then slowly, vaguely, haltingly, some of the middle class and the working class may eventually see that this fat orange billionaire doesn’t actually have their interests at heart. (There is a hardcore group of MAGA enthusiasts who will never believe, of course, that anything is Donald Trump’s fault.)

But for the rest of them, they’re going to have to find out the hard way. Let the experience begin.