MINNEAPOLIS – Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin says his party must do more to resist President Donald Trump.
“Look, folks, I’m sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight,” Martin said Monday, speaking to an audience of several hundred DNC members at the committee’s summer meeting. “We cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore. We have to stand up and fight. We’re not going to have a hand tied behind our back anymore. Let’s grow a damn spine and get in this fight, Democrats.”
Martin repeatedly called Trump an authoritarian fascist and vowed that Democrats would do more to resist his administration, delivering a fiery speech that characterized the contest between Republicans and Democrats as an existential fight for the country’s freedom.