CHRIS CRUCIAL: Democrats have to stop swinging at *every* pitch ⚾

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1. On balls. And Strikes.

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There is a tendency — it’s almost Pavlovian at this point — among Democratic elected officials and the party’s base to react with outrage and anger to everything Donald Trump does as president.

Everything must be opposed. Everything must be called out. Everything must be resisted.

I understand this impulse. I truly do — especially when you consider that lots of what Trump (and his administration) are doing is, at best, in a legal gray area and some of it appears to be just plain illegal.

But, elections are not won in a court of law. They are won in the court of public opinion. And that means that Democrats need to be far more judicious in the public fights they choose to pick with the president.

Take the ongoing fight over the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Democratic elected officials have seized on the destruction of the agency by Trump forces as a sign of drastic overreach and misguided ideology.

Images and video of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer chanting “We will Win” at a USAID protest are everywhere.

The party — or at least its elected leaders — seem to think this is a smart political strategy.

I disagree. Big time.

Here’s why: