The Democrats are changing their tune on Trump

The early attitudes from Democrats toward the new Trump administration are difficult to judge in a vacuum – and that’s the context we’re currently in a dozen days before the second inaugural. Last time around, it was only after the combination hits of the Women’s March and the manufactured Russiagate freakout that we saw elected Democrats put in a position where anything less than loud resistance was unacceptable. So here, in the in-between time before Trump returns to the White House, the positioning may not accurately reflect where things will be a month from now.

That being said, there are signals – and they already reflect a different attitude from some Democrats.

Consider the application of the lesson as it related to the Laken Riley Act, which passed the House yesterday with the votes of all Republicans and 48 Democrats (including several freshmen). On the Senate side, it has the support of John Fetterman, new Arizona senator Ruben Gallego, Georgia’s Jon Ossoff (yep, in case you forgot he’s a senator), and, perhaps most notably, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee chair Gary Peters, who faces a potentially challenging re-election task in Michigan.