It’s been less than a week since Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, and Democrats are already using the “r” word.

“We need another resistance to take him on — starting right now,” Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. wrote in an oped.

It’s a theme echoed by Blue State pols around the country: Trump’s policies and actions must be fought every step of the way.

What Dems fail to understand is that the Nov. 5 election was a resistance — by 74,650,000 voters who checked the box for Trump over Kamala Harris and the progressive agenda.

That’s the highest raw count of the popular vote of any Republican presidential candidate ever. As of Sunday morning, Trump eclipsing his prior record of 74,224,000 votes in the 2020 election, according to the Associated Press.

It’s hard to miss the message voters are sending. But Democrats are doubling down on denial.

Even Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Independent Vermont pol whose Unity Task Force helped shape President Biden’s progressive policies, chastised Dems

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders said right after the election.

He underscored the message on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning.

“Here is the reality, the working class of this country is angry, and they have reason to be angry,” he said. “We are living in an economy today where people on top are doing phenomenally well while 60 percent of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.”

Rep. Nancy Pelosi has a different take on “reality.”

“I have a great deal of respect for (Sanders), for what he stands for, but I don’t respect him saying that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working-class families. That’s where we are,” California Rep. Nancy Pelosi told the New York Times podcast “The Interview.”

Jaime Harrison, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, called the remarks by Sanders “straight up BS,” The Hill reported.

There are some 74,650,000 voters who would disagree with Harrison.

Instead of introspection, Democrats are opting for “resistance,” especially when it comes to the mass deportations of people who are in the country illegally.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said “No, absolutely not” when asked on MSNBC if the Massachusetts State Police would support the incoming Trump administration’s effort to deport illegal immigrants.

Unfortunately, what Healey and other Democratic leaders ignore at their own peril, is that this stance is not just a way to “resist” President-elect Trump, it’s resisting what a majority of Americans want.

A September Scripps News/Ipsos poll found that more than half of all Americans, including a quarter of Democrats, support the mass deportation of immigrants who are living in the country illegally.

About 54% of respondents — 86% of Republicans, 58% of independents and 25% of Democrats — said they “strongly” or “somewhat” support a wide-scale effort to deport millions of immigrants, and 59% said they are closely following the “immigration situation at the U.S.-Mexico border,” The Hill reported.

The survey also found that 39% of respondents named immigration a top issue for them this election year — second only to inflation.

We saw that at the polls on Nov. 5.

Democrats have a choice going forward: they can listen to voters and their concerns, or they can stay in their comfort zone and face more “surprise” losses.

Editorial cartoon by Joe Heller (Joe Heller)