According to New York Times journalist Annie Karni, “Democrats knew in real time last year that they had bungled their response” to Donald Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress.

There, the party’s more excitable members put on a “hokey and incoherent” spectacle in which they heckled the president and responded silently to his remarks with paddles adorned with messages -- “Save Medicaid,” “Musk Steals,” and simply “False” among them.

Indeed, Democratic establishmentarians were visibly embarrassed by their colleagues’ cringe-inducing display. The mere act of criticizing their overzealous fellow Democrats resulted in a deluge of vitriolic attacks on the party’s leadership ...

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