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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Every single right wing media source has seemlessly transitioned from "didn't happen" to "it's fine that it happened", Republicans are never turning on Trump.
This is why it remains, I think, the only path forward for the left to focus on populist and strident messaging regarding the GOP's domestic policies which raid public monies and welfare programs for tax cuts for zillionaires, and present an alternative case for how the left can improve peoples' lives in practical ways.
In many respects these stories remain very esoteric for most of the electorate, which is why the GOP can quickly make them partisan and shuffle everyone into their pre-assigned reflexive corners.
1) Waiting for the GOP to act is obviously foolish; they have 40% of the electorate wedded to them and will never move, and for most of them, that's enough for de facto lifetime appointments
2) Waiting for the mainstream media to dutifully explain all of Trump's transgressions in the midst of right-winger generated distractions and obfuscations is also doomed to fail.
3) And waiting for law enforcement or other institutions like the FBI or intelligence community to catch up with Trump may take years or never happen
Democrats best shot, or maybe the left's best shot to put a lot of leverage on Democrats to insist on this -- is to make the affirmative case that the Democrats have polices that give a large number of people more money and security than they would with the GOP, and the negative case that the GOP are amoral kleptocrats scamming them.
Russia Russia Russia RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA has some merits I'm sure, it's titillating, no doubt Trump is guilty of so much. But yet again weeks go by and all Democrats are able to muster is that Trump is a very, very bad idiot President which is basically baked into everyone's impressions now.
It's probably true enough that by doing nothing else, Democrats will win a lot in 2018 but probably not change much in the long run.
Still think Democrats have to move beyond these events even when they're self-inflicted by Trump and even when he proves himself the hapless idiot we know him to be.
Last edited by DVaut1; 05-16-2017 at 09:59 AM.