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Opinion: What is the Democratic alternative to Trump?

Photo/Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press / President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Washington.
Photo/Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press / President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Washington.

The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.

Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of Trump’s latest policy.

Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation.

Take foreign policy.

Democratic senators trashed the recent Trump-Putin Alaskan summit as a failure. Then they became depressed when, just days later, an entourage of European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suddenly flew to the White House.