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[email protected] Website: www.kuwaittimes.net Factbox Tea party parallel? Liberals taking aim at their own party our days after Donald Trump’s surprising White House victory, the liberal organization CREDO FAction fired off a frantic warning to its 4.6 million anxious supporters. Their worry wasn’t the new presi- dent. It was his opposition. “Democratic leaders have been welcoming Trump,” the email said. “That’s not acceptable. Democratic leaders need to stand up and fight. Now.” Amid a national surge of anti-Trump protests, boy- cotts and actions, liberals have begun taking aim at a different target: Their own party. Over the past few weeks, activists have formed a number of organizations threatening a primary challenge to Democratic law- makers who offer anything less than complete resist- ance to the Republican president. “We’re not interested in unity,” said Cenk Uygur, the founder of Justice Democrats, a new organization that’s pledged to replace “every establishment politician” in Congress. Washington Watch “We can’t beat the Republicans unless we have good, honest, uncorrupted candidates.” While party leaders have urged Democrats to keep their attacks focused on Trump, the liberal grass roots Disappointed, but not distraught sees the fresh wave of opposition energy as an oppor- By Dr James J Zogby road and did not sink to the level of his attackers, he ning.