mom telling you you better behave or she'll let dad beat you with the jumper cables again
democrats will never win another election again for the remainder of american history
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it seems the context of this call was democratic governors such as beshear trying to push senators to do more to obstruct the trump administration in its efforts. he specifically says they should focus more on the lack of material efforts to improve the lives of the american people by the trump admin, rather than a "desecration of american democracy".
in that light, i think the tone of the quoted section is more sympathetic, that the american people 'will' have to deal with the harms of trumps admin, in order to be more conscientious of how they vote in the future.
i think he still misses the mark in that not only do the democrats need to point out the material harms, they need to present efforts of material gains as well. but the tone of the conversation was not governors are trying to inflict maximum harm to their constituents as some sort of 'revenge'.
The Republican response was crazy, but I don't think the implication in posting this is to suggest Beshear was encouraging Democrats to stand aside and allow the Trump admin to run rampant (or worse, exacerbate things themselves), it's just further evidence that the Dems are still blaming the public and assuming that the whatever the Trump administration succeeds in inflicting on them is a lesson to "vote correctly" next time. There's no sense of awareness of their own errors.