With President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats are regrouping and strategizing for the next four years. After their 2016 loss to Trump, Democrats launched a multi-faceted resistance that included protests, grassroots mobilization, legal challenges, media pushback, and even impeachment.

Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor David Pakman explains why repeating the 2016 resistance strategy won’t work this time. Pakman says Democrats need to follow the example set by Republicans after Trump’s 2020 loss and start preparing for the next time they’re in power.

The following is an excerpt from the above video:

But here’s the thing that you have to understand. When Trump was defeated in 2020, Republicans didn’t just sit around complaining. They built, they created a media ecosystem, ideological outfits. They nurtured a generation of right-wing influencers. They were taking electoral hits, no doubt, but they were planning for a future Trump government and more enduring change that will outlast Donald Trump. They created Project 2025, which is going to shape the government into something far more radical and right-wing when Trump takes power.

So notice that when Biden won, MAGA didn’t just resist, they set their sights way higher into an enduring opposition, and that’s what the Left needs to do now, because we are not facing the same sort of Trump term that we faced in 2017 when Trump was sworn in in January. We are now facing a Trump that has no elections left to run — according to some, is setting up JD Vance and his own son, Don Jr, to run alongside JD in 2028 — they want to reshape bureaucratic institutions in their image. So we need something more durable and more forward-looking that I would call an opposition, not a resistance.