'It's a trap for Trump': Former conservative offers Democrats a battle plan

Jonathan Last, a one-time conservative who left the movement in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's political rise, wants to see Democrats act more like the GOP.

Writing in The Bulwark, Last encourages Democrats to take a tone of "ruthless aggression" in their dealings with Republicans headed into Trump's second term.

First, argues Last, Democrats should stop acting like the proverbial "adults in the room" who bail the GOP out of their constant dysfunction.

"Do not help Republicans," he writes. "Not in any way. On any issue. Republicans can’t pass a budget, or raise the debt ceiling? Tough luck. Do not provide them any bailout votes on any issue. Period, the end."

Perhaps more important than this, continues Last, will be piling the blame upon Trump relentlessly.

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"Make Donald Trump own every bad outcome that happens, anywhere in the world while paying special attention to areas where Republicans are particularly vulnerable," he writes.

Last believes that Trump and the GOP will be particularly vulnerable to the ever-increasing housing crisis in the United States that Trump is poised to make even worse with his plans to mass-deport immigrant construction workers.

"You can’t address housing affordability without substantially increasing the housing supply," he contends. "But if Trump is serious about mass deportations, then housing starts will be under downward pressure. Housing, as an issue, is a trap for Trump and Republicans. It’s a problem they can’t solve without creating other problems for themselves. Democrats ought to talk about housing all day, every day. Make it the new price of eggs."