Democrats newly buoyed by President Trump's steadily sinking approval ratings are stubbornly divided over their resistance strategy and path back to power.

One hundred days into Trump’s second term, liberal Democrats on and off Capitol Hill are stepping up their hard-line opposition to the norm-smashing president, advancing aggressive tactics — backed by the party’s progressive base — that now include formal articles of impeachment.

Yet such actions are receiving a cold reception from more moderate lawmakers, who want Democrats to focus on the stark policy differences between the parties on a handful of issues — including health care, financial security and consumer costs — that resonate most deeply with voters.

These Democrats fear wading into an impeachment debate could boomerang back on them, as much as such moves feel popular with a part of the base.

The dynamics have challenged a national Democratic Party that’s beginning to see the political winds shift in its favor after a bitterly disappointing November, but still faces nagging disagreements over how best to resist Trump and capitalize on his slide in popularity.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), who delivered the Democratic response to Trump’s joint address to Congress earlier this year, has been critical of the progressive response to Trump.

Last week, she said Democrats must shed the public perception that the party is “weak and woke.”

The swing state senator has also urged progressives to stop using the term “oligarchy” when criticizing Trump and his allies, an apparent reference to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

Sanders pushed back on Slotkin’s suggestion Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press," pointing to the massive crowds the........

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