For U.S. Senate progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the possibility of working with a populist Donald Trump on at least a few liberal goals was nice while it lasted.
Now they’re attacking the Republican president-elect’s nomination of Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin for Treasury secretary. They’re threatening a battle over the pick of Obamacare foe Representative Tom Price as secretary of Health and Human Services. And they’re demanding Trump retract his unproven claims of voter fraud.