With Biden In Place, The Resistance Tries To Pivot From Defense To Offense
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Ezra Klein column: Democrats, repeat after me: Help people fast
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Members of Virginia s Herndon-Reston Indivisible group protest in front of the White House on Aug. 6, 2018. With Donald Trump out of office, progressive groups are turning their focus. Shannon Finney/Getty Images
When Ezra Levin and his wife, Leah Greenberg, founded the progressive group Indivisible in 2016, they widely circulated a handbook on resisting the Trump agenda. It took tactical lessons in grassroots politics from the Tea Party, which had prominently resisted President Barack Obama s agenda.
There s another lesson Levin now thinks progressives can take from the conservative Tea Party: It s easier to oppose a policy than to advance one.