First things First. DJT must be a one term president. It is too early for me to get behind one candidate for the Democratic nomination or another. However, I have been thinking about this a lot, as it is my number one priority..beating DJT.
Here is some of an opinion piece by Rick Wilson (Everything Trump Touches Dies) that I think is worth reading:
I’m not here to pick a candidate for the Democrats, but as a political anthropologist of the Trump era, the current class is working the political Maslow hierarchy backward.
On the top, they’re all racing to be the ideologically perfect. “Pick me for your socialist far-left policy dream date!” Even former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who made an actual fortune as a small businessman, wouldn’t label himself a capitalist. What the hell?
Then come concerns over whether the candidate can raise the money. Then comes the idea that maybe they’ll be able to organize a national campaign.
They’ve got it all backward. A candidate needs one attribute to win this thing: the ability to post up to Donald Trump in a year-long slugfest. They need a warrior spirit, a thick skin, a sense of humor, and the rhetorical gift to both scorch and belittle Trump with a smile. They need someone who isn’t bound by politically-correct Marquis of Queensbury rules, but who knows this is a street fight with no holds barred.
Trump won’t play by any rules, ever, and the Democratic nominee better have a taste for blood.
The “Sanders would have won” crowd will have their chance to make their case, but forget it. Sanders is a parasitic worm eating the Democratic Party from the inside out, and Democrats should get it through their heads quickly: nominating a revolutionary Red Diaper socialist for the presidency would result in a 1984-style wipeout. Trump would likely win 45 states.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-losing-2020-20190331-qz6zaomkfndxlleg75yhdqyvou-story.html
Here is some of an opinion piece by Rick Wilson (Everything Trump Touches Dies) that I think is worth reading:
I’m not here to pick a candidate for the Democrats, but as a political anthropologist of the Trump era, the current class is working the political Maslow hierarchy backward.
On the top, they’re all racing to be the ideologically perfect. “Pick me for your socialist far-left policy dream date!” Even former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who made an actual fortune as a small businessman, wouldn’t label himself a capitalist. What the hell?
Then come concerns over whether the candidate can raise the money. Then comes the idea that maybe they’ll be able to organize a national campaign.
They’ve got it all backward. A candidate needs one attribute to win this thing: the ability to post up to Donald Trump in a year-long slugfest. They need a warrior spirit, a thick skin, a sense of humor, and the rhetorical gift to both scorch and belittle Trump with a smile. They need someone who isn’t bound by politically-correct Marquis of Queensbury rules, but who knows this is a street fight with no holds barred.
Trump won’t play by any rules, ever, and the Democratic nominee better have a taste for blood.
The “Sanders would have won” crowd will have their chance to make their case, but forget it. Sanders is a parasitic worm eating the Democratic Party from the inside out, and Democrats should get it through their heads quickly: nominating a revolutionary Red Diaper socialist for the presidency would result in a 1984-style wipeout. Trump would likely win 45 states.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-losing-2020-20190331-qz6zaomkfndxlleg75yhdqyvou-story.html