WASHINGTON — With a government funding deadline looming, the biggest sin in the eyes of the party’s base, according to Democratic officials and activists, would not be losing to President Donald Trump in a shutdown battle. It would be refusing to fight. “They’re desperate to see from Democrats some sign that they understand how serious, how damaging, how dangerous things are and have gotten, and they’re prepared to use the tools and the leverage they’ve got to fight back,” said Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, a progressive grassroots group that has thousands of chapters nationwide.

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