Democrats are furious. And they want their leaders to get mad, too.

“I wish you’d be angry,” a constituent told representative Gil Cisneros, a Democrat of California, at a recent town hall. At an event in Minnesota featuring a panel of Democratic attorneys general, an activist voiced a similar sentiment: “Get angry, man,” punctuating the message with a profanity.

The anger roiling the party, slow to build, is now a forceful current coursing through the electorate and pulling in Americans terrified that the country is descending into authoritarianism. Democrats – with no leader to guide them and little power to wield in Washington – are scrambling to harness the sudden fury.

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.

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    3 days ago

    20% is a lot less then the amount of PUMA people that didn’t vote for Obama. (The point here is that the left rallies behind the centrist and right of the party far more then the centrists do. And yet you still blame the left.)

    Maybe if the Democratic party wasn’t addicted to feeling self righteous, and it your comment reflected reality (it doesn’t) then the DNC would recognize the left as a voting block they have to appease to, you know, win.

    You know, actually do politics rather then look down their noses at people demanding unreasonable stuff like health care.