TV host and author Touré is thinking about quitting the Democratic Party over its failure to stand up to Trump.
“My parents were Democrats, I’ve been a Democrat my entire life,” Touré said on CNN’s News Night on Friday. “Never before did I say, ‘I should leave this party,’”
“Are you thinking about leaving the Democratic Party?” CNN anchor Abby Phillip pressed.
“Yes,” the former co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle replied, “over the inability to figure out what to do in the face of fascism and the rise of Trump.”
Democrats have struggled to unite around a strategy to take on President Donald Trump, disagreeing on whether they should aggressively block his every move or pick their fights.
“We have no coherent message,” Representative Jasmine Crockett told The New York Times in February.
Democrats have recently broken out into a full civil war over a Republican spending bill that will fund the government until September and avert a shutdown, which passed on Friday. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer angered many in his party when he pledged his support, caving to Trump. Nine Senate Democrats joined their Republican colleagues in advancing the bill.
“I believe it is the best way to minimize the harm that the Trump administration will do to the American people,” Schumer said on the Senate Floor. “Allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via government shutdown is a far worse option.”
Other Democrats in Congress disagreed, criticizing the bill’s cuts to non-military programs and removal of restrictions on Trump’s power. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the bill was “a false choice that Donald Trump, Elon Musk and House Republicans have been presenting between their reckless and partisan spending bill and a government shutdown.”
