Democrats, Get Fierce

President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act, on August 14, 1935. Attending were: (L-R) Representative Robert Doughton (D-NC), Senator Robert Wagner (D-NY), Representative John Dingell (D-MI), Representative Joshua Twing Brooks (D-Pennsylvania), Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Senator Pat Harrison (D-MS), and Representative David Lewis (D-MD). (Library of Congress)

Five months from now, on Tuesday, November 6, we Democrats will have what may be our one and only chance to slow down the runaway Trump train. Maybe even — and this is just a “maybe” — stop him dead in his tracks. It could happen. It should happen. But will it?

Living in the real world as I do most of the time, I’m frantic, I’m worried, I’m hyped, I’m scared. Some days I’m beside myself with anxiety. Most of it comes from…