And they’re not going to change it. I see on social media a lot of frustration with Congressional Democrats, especially the leadership, who are still focused on Trump’s economic plan, to the extent that they’re ignoring everything else. I share that frustration, but it’s pretty clear what the leadership’s plan is–and they haven’t been very shy about it:

1. Vote against Trump’s legislation. This is good, even though too many Democratic senators have voted to confirm Trump’s nominees–those nominees would have passed anyway, but telling voters his nominees are bums is good.
2. Stand back and let everything, including the economy, go to shit. This is largely in Trump’s hands and he seems to be doing a ‘good’ job of it. Of course, if you’re one of those people whose life has gone to shit, and Democrats could have tried to do something, you might feel differently!
3. When things are bad enough, voters will somehow, in an unfavorable media environment, realize that it’s all Trump’s and Republicans’ faults, and then they will vote accordingly.

It’s not much of a plan, but it’s what they’re going with. It’s a ‘good’ plan in the sense that the leadership and their consultants can’t really be blamed–if it fails, they can just blame economic improvements or ‘the left’ for not clapping loudly enough. If they actually try to shape public opinion (a boy can dream!), they could fuck up, and that would mean blame could be cast! On them!

To be clear, this doesn’t mean all Democrats are like this (many lower ranking officials are saying and doing good things), but the leadership has made it clear that this very passive strategy is what they want. So when they’re not really saying or doing much about [gestures wildly at all the awful crap], that is by design.