Say what you like about Nancy Pelosi, but she took back the House by running the Dems as a "moderate" party that talked about things like voter concern over health care. A year on, and most of what the party's presidential candidates are yakking about - busing, the needs of trans-African-Americans, open borders to all six-and-a-half billion Undocumented-Americans around the world - is bonkers. The Democrat platform is a twitchy reflex that, whatever Trump is for, they're against. So he wakes up every morning, tweets his rubber hammer at their kneecaps, and they respond accordingly. He doesn't even have to hold any particular position: The actual Trump is utterly indifferent on the matter of "gender fluidity" and, from his experience as a businessman in Canada and Scotland, is not ill-disposed toward socialized health care. But the Trump of their fevers is a transphobe who wants to shove granny off a cliff, and that's who they're running against.
So the party of Big Government will no longer cooperate with the biggest government of all. Behold Eric Garcetti, mayor of a city the middle class is fleeing, where less and less works, where traffic is at a standstill, and you can't get out and walk because the sidewalks are full of tent cities, human feces and flesh-eating viruses. And his priority is non-cooperation with ICE.