# Picking up the Pieces from the Smoldering Ruins: What do Dems do when we take power again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 9, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-up-the-pieces-from-the-smoldering-ruins-what-do-dems-do-when-we-take-power-again/1014101 "2025-02-09T21:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-up-the-pieces-from-the-smoldering-ruins-what-do-dems-do-when-we-take-power-again/1014101/2 "2025-02-09T22:12:36Z")
What the Democrats do will depend a lot on whether the Republicans can adjust to a government that actually tries to help people and a political party that isn’t built almost entirely on hatred and spite. Can they adjust to a government that doesn’t tell them that being white and Christian isn’t enough to be a “winner”? Can they be made to understand that being different isn’t automatically a sin, and what the rest of the world thinks of us might actually matter? The Democrats cannot operate in a vacuum, so a lot of what they want to do depends on Republicans not wanting to totally destroy all that is to the left of them, not to admire people just because the “enemies” dislike them. To not have “enemies”, but to have _political_ opponents. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-up-the-pieces-from-the-smoldering-ruins-what-do-dems-do-when-we-take-power-again/1014101)._