The day after President Donald Trump’s budget office attempted to freeze nearly all federal spending last week, congressional Democrats flooded Hill reporters’ inboxes with sharply worded statements. While a few of those statements made it into news articles, most went ignored.
Meanwhile, Sen. Brian Schatz hopped on a videocall with Adam Mockler of MeidasTouch, a left-leaning network of podcasters, independent journalists and YouTube streamers, for a quick interview. Within hours, the 8-minute clip with the Hawaii Democrat had racked up tens of thousands of views.
If you judge from the commentary online since Trump returned to the White House last month, you might think the only people rank-and-file Democrats dislike more than Trump and his cronies are Democratic leaders, who have been derided as lethargic, feckless and missing in action.
