Jim VandeHei: Democrats Need an ‘Absurd Amount of Self-Discipline’ To Resist Trump’s Final-Two-Year Push

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VANDEHEI: “I mean, the problem is attention is seductive. Payback is seductive. And I think the way that Donald Trump is organizing for the final two years is going to make it really hard for Democrats to hold their tongues. If you just look at what the president has done elevating Stephen Miller. This is a guy who is a maximalist in terms of asserting the power of the presidency. This is a guy who considers Democrats to be essentially a terrorist organization. He's called him a domestic threat. This is a guy who believes that we need a harder line on immigration, that we need to get more people out of this country and that the tactics need to be even tougher. He might not prevail on that. But if you look at the team now between him and Blanche or J.D. Vance, you essentially have this group of very sort of full throated, mega aggressive men, middle aged white men essentially is what's left. And they feel like they have to go to war. You even had the president on social media this weekend talking about the possibility that you go after and you imprison anyone who tries to investigate you because it is harassment, like forgetting the irony that it was you that sort of started a lot of these fights. And so it will take in an absurd amount of self-discipline to do what Mika was talking about, which I do think is the wise road.”