Frustrated Democrats are fighting to counter President Trump’s flood-the-zone approach by adopting a mirror strategy with a simple goal: To flood the zone right back.

Democrats have struggled to keep pace with the machine-gun tempo of Trump’s second term, which has featured a blitz of boundary-busting executive orders, mass deportations, federal firings, and broader efforts to gut the federal government.

The Democrats’ response to the frenzy of executive actions has infuriated the party’s liberal base, which loudly accused Democratic leaders of failing to push back against an aggressive White House in ways that meet the urgency of the moment.

The party brass appears to have noticed. Recent weeks have seen the Democrats coalescing behind an assertive new strategy designed to fight fire with fire — what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) characterizes as a “more is more” playbook.

The strategy is very much a work in progress as Democrats scramble by trial and error to locate communications techniques that can break through the noise of Trump’s frenzied second term.

And the actions of some lawmakers, like Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) marathon floor speech, have been better received than the tactics of others, like Rep. Al Green’s (D-Texas) heckling of Trump on the House floor, which angered some Democratic moderates and led to Green’s censure.

Still, Democrats are increasingly rallying behind a mantra that’s perhaps best encapsulated by words attributed to the hockey great Wayne Gretzky:........

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