Democrats have never been so angry. Who will step up and lead them?

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51% : Skocpol, who also studied the anti-Trump resistance that emerged in response to his 2016 election, said her research showed that engagement at the state and local level helped save the Affordable Care Act and turn the tide for Democrats in the 2018 congressional midterm elections.
51% : Perhaps most worryingly for the party was their sharp turn toward Trump among young people, especially men.
49% : An upset victory by the Democrat James Malone for a Pennsylvania state senate seat in a district that had voted overwhelmingly for Trump in November provided a beacon of hope for the party.
48% : There is widespread agreement on the diagnosis: that the party must rebuild trust with the working class and win back the cohorts of young people, Latinos and Asian voters who defected to Trump in 2024.
36% : A post-election analysis by the pollster David Shor found that naturalized citizens swung sharply from Joe Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024, meaning they chose a candidate who promised to close the very same doors they walked through to enter the country.
33% : At rallies, town halls and protests, voters are unleashing their fury with Donald Trump, stoking what some believe is a populist backlash Democrats are furious.
32% : At rallies, town halls and protests, voters are venting their fury with Donald Trump and his empowerment of Elon Musk's full-frontal assault on federal agencies, stoking what progressive activists believe are the embers of a populist backlash against the president - and the Democratic leaders they believe are not meeting the moment.
26% : A survey released this week by the progressive polling firm Data for Progress showed that 70% of Democratic voters gave the party's response to Trump a "C" grade or below, with 21% assigning a failing grade.
25% : The path forward, according to Ruffini, is what he calls "combative centrism" - candidates who take on Trump and his administration but hold moderate positions on key social and economic issues.
25% : " "That does not mean in any way that we are taking a backseat in the fight against Trump," he added.
24% : One lesson many Democrats drew from their 2024 defeat was that opposing Trump was not enough.
20% : Despite the rising tide of anger, Democrats still have no clear strategy to confront Trump or the chainsaw-wielding Musk, who said in an interview on Thursday that his mission to slash federal spending by $1tn could be completed within weeks.
11% : Among the few exceptions, the conservative host conceded, were Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez because they were actively mobilizing overflow crowds against the Trump administration's mass firings of federal workers, his attempts to dismantle the Department of Education and the threats to overhaul social security and cut Medicaid and Medicare.

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