The Democratic pols who painted President Donald Trump during his campaign as a dictator who was a threat to our democracy if not civilization haven’t taken their feet off the gas.

Resistance to the man they love to hate has doubled down inside the Beltway, with a zeal that ignores the fact that Trump is in office because voters preferred him to Kamala Harris.

In a Sunday interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., explained Democrats’ strategy to push back on the efforts of Trump and Elon Musk to reshape much of the federal government through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and other means of executive authority, the Hill reported.

Booker said Democrats are fighting back through the courts, in Congress and through public and media engagement with constituents.

We assume that means Democratic constituents. You get less pushback preaching to the choir.

“I think the plan right now is working in four parts. One is a legal strategy to stop him from violating the separation of powers, from violating our civil service law, civil rights laws. And we’re winning,” Booker said.

The theme is a twist on the saying “there are no bad ideas.” The Dems’ take on Trump’s presidency from the start has been: “There are no good ideas.”

Booker said the next step is “a legislative and oversight effort to really try to expose” some of Trump’s actions.

He returned to the familiar “Orange Man Bad” playbook.

“Not to treat this as Democrat versus Republican, right or left, but really right or wrong,” Booker said, “and continue to try to use our positions procedurally, as well as legislatively, to stop what he’s doing.”

Booker said another key step in Democrats’ plan is to communicate to the public various actions the Trump administration has taken and what Democrats are doing to fight back.

Of course it is. Midterms are on the horizon, and re-elections loom across the country. Democrats could have engaged in post-election reflections and taken stock of its message and progressive leanings going forward.

Democratic strategist James Carville told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki that the party’s platforms need to be “massively” popular among its base. They also have to be ideas that are massively popular across the country, he said.

Fighting back against illegal immigration was top of mind with Trump voters, as was the economy. Progressive agendas, not so much.

But Dems are wedded to habit.

“Democratic leadership acts like it’s permanently 2006, a year when, yes, we took back the Senate, but also before the Republican Party found a cult leader and lost its collective minds,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer told The Hill. “We don’t live in that world anymore; we have a lifelong conman and convicted felon in the Oval Office who tries every day to turn this country into a dictatorship. Let’s start acting like it.”

“That means you can’t be mad about Trump trying to freeze government spending in the morning, and vote for his Treasury secretary — who will destroy the economy — in the afternoon,” Setzer added. “Stop helping Trump.”

Resist. Impede. Thwart.

It’s quite a platform.

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