Since election night two months ago, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been quietly wrestling with a question that will define the next four years of their political world. With anti-Trump resistance politics in ruins and large portions of the Democratic coalition shifting right, to what extent should Democrats work with a MAGA movement they’ve spent years denouncing as dangerous?

The question of how and whether to align with Donald Trump on policy has divided the party and even split the progressive movement. Lefty Rep. Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) call for bipartisan engagement with Elon Musk’s government efficiency group led to an outpouring of venom from progressives, for whom Musk is a special kind of poison. Others, including strategist David Axelrod, reject out of hand the idea that Trump would even consider working with Democrats.

If Democrats want to win back the voters who abandoned them in November, they’ll need to learn to take wins where they can in a government dominated by an ideology they find repulsive. That might turn some stomachs, but politics is the art of making the best of a bad situation. Even in the darkness of Trumpism, Democrats have a real opportunity to deliver real positive change for their constituents. They should.

Though Khanna is too idealistic about Musk’s actual intentions for DOGE, he’s right about how important it is that Democrats avoid becoming another “Party of No.” Democrats may find........

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