Susan Page: I Am Struck by the Discouragement Among Dems, the ‘Contrast with 2016 Is So Striking’

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PAGE: “But I am struck, I think, by the discouragement that you see among Democrats and those who opposed Donald Trump now. The contrast with 2016 is so striking. Then we had all these protests going on and declarations of defiance and the Women’s March, and now you find, I think, people who did not vote for Donald Trump for president, it’s not clear to me what their reaction is. I think you see a kind of retreat from the public debate, at least for a while. So that is one of the big challenges, it seems to me, we are going to face as a nation, and the Trump opposition will face, which is, how to engage people in a productive way about the course forward. Now, it’s possible that Donald Trump will help. He may do -- he was elected for some reasons, including concern about the economy and chaos in the world, but he was not elected for some of the things he says he is going to do, and that may give his opponents a toehold. But this does seem like sort of dispirited moment, I think, for those who did not support him."