‘What’s the plan?’ Democrats divided over approach towards Trump

A split is emerging between those who insist on shunning the US president-elect at all costs and those who see merit in cooperation.

The dichotomy has left allies frustrated and demanding a coherent plan of attack.

Democrats spent years casting Trump as a fundamental threat who instigated a coup against the US government in a failed attempt to overturn his election defeat.

Joe Biden warned that Trump was poised to resume his “assault on democracy” and was deploying the “same exact language used in Nazi Germany ”.

Democratic party should be harnessing the collective anger of the American people who are not OK with Donald Trump .

Many Democrats remain sharply critical of Trump , especially his effort to scupper a spending bill in Congress this week .

But there also risks in providing kneejerk responses to every Trump outrage in the manic news cycle.

Longtime opponents of the president-elect are urging the party not to succumb to Trump fatigue.

Tara Setmayer , a former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill , said: “It’s clear that there needs to be fresh blood, and the Democrats need to figure out who they are as a party sooner rather than later”.