President-elect Donald Trump's White House return is only three days away, however A California-based company unique in providing the crowds sought for protests is seeing a dramatic drop in enthusiasm among Democrats compared to previous years.
Adam Swart, CEO of California-based publishing firm Crowds on Demand, said it's a big difference between past elections.
“We had fewer questions than in 2017 when Trump was first elected for his first term, and I mean that's a lack of love right now for a lot of Democratic Party donors and workers. ,” he told Fox News Digital.
“Many of them are disillusioned, and they understand that the tactics they tried ultimately did not work, and they are trying to change their approach as we enter the second Trump era.”
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Anti-Trump protesters gather as people line up to see former President Donald Trump speak at Madison Square Garden during a campaign rally on October 27, 2024, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
In the nature of business, the losing party – or the opposing party – tends to sign up Most Needed Helpwhich means Democrats will be flocking to the company after President Donald Trump's landslide victory and as his inauguration approaches.
But residual malaise from the Democrats' November loss and the desire to chart a path forward with a sound message that can be blamed.
Swart points to a shift in the “outrage tactics” that, in his words, have “failed” the Democratic Party.
“It's something I've been telling my friends in the Democratic Party for a long time, that the so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome, where you vehemently oppose everything he does, you resent everything he says. In the end it didn't work, as evidenced by the great victory that Trump achieved,” he said.
“He didn't overcome earthquakes because people didn't know who he was. People knew who he was.”
He quoted Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who, in June 2018, called on members of the public to openly confront and harass members of the Trump administration.
“They can't go to a restaurant, they can't stop at a gas station, they can't shop at a grocery store,” Waters said. said at the time. “People will rebel against them, they will protest, they will absolutely abuse them.”
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Swart said this tactic worked for Democrats during the first Trump administration, when many members of the administration were “socially ostracized.”
“They were banned from restaurants. They were banned from social gatherings. They weren't invited to important events,” he said.
“The idea of that tactic was to put public costs in place to align with Trump. Now, when you see the titans of Silicon Valley and Wall Street openly align with Trump in a way you've never seen before and seeing it. an unprecedented scale, extracting the public price from Trump supporters is no longer possible.”
However Waters later denied it had encouraged violence against Trump officials, Some Democrats they have faced similar scrutiny for inflammatory rhetoric, including episodes in which many members of the party called Trump a “threat to democracy.” Democratic Rep. New York's Dan Goldman, for example, once said that Trump is so “dangerous” to democracy that he “must be eliminated,” but he apologized for that statement soon after.
Swart warned Democrats that if the Waters-style rhetoric continues, the party will “lose even more” in the next election, move moderate Republicans to the right and drive moderate Democrats away from left
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“My advice to Democrats about protesting and advocacy in the Trump era is to be very clear in your advocacy and be positive about your views. Considering the fact that Democrats are a minority less in the Senate and the House of Representatives, there are opportunities to bring moderate or ambivalent Republicans to their way of thinking, but the tactics of anger and attack and ostracized in society is not like going to work,” he said.
“A better strategy is to focus more on their constituents and what the constituents want, number one. Number two, make an emotional but accurate appeal. And number three, constant but effective pressure. and respect. What I mean by that is that you smile. You make your opinion heard. When you go, what we've found is that our campaigns work best where we use pressure e We're good humored, but we're not stopping, and that's the plan that's going to work because that's going to bring independent Republicans to vote with Democrats.”
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Fox News' Yael Halon, Greg Wehner and Emma Colton contributed to this report.