James Scaminaci III🇮🇱🇺🇦🇫🇮 Profile picture
4GW researcher. Former chief, SFOR CJ2 Special Projects. Specialties: counter-terrorism, counter-mafia, Balkans. Retired sr civ intel analyst. PhD Soc Stanford.

Aug 22, 2020, 6 tweets

Joe’s Fearsome Weapon Against Trump: Simple Decency nytimes.com/2020/08/21/opi… // This is just a replay of Clinton's "deplorables" strategy. Her closing argument in Florida was 6 weeks of showing the uncouth Trump's greatest hits. We are now in the midst of multiple crises that are

2/ life-and-death issues people talk about at the kitchen table: keeping their jobs, their homes, their apartments, their health care, educating their children, surviving the pandemic, and more catastrophic climate. If Biden & Harris cannot discuss everyday how their Government

3/ Policies are going to help families, children, seniors, veterans, and all workers get through these, then Trump will paint them as "big government" "tax and spend" liberals. Here's a hint at what's happening in Alabama with Doug Jones (D, incumbent) against the former Auburn

4/ coach. Jones has terrific ads running in Mobile. They focus on the pandemic and protecting both Social Security and Medicare. Within a minute, the football coach talks about abortion, abortion, abortion. The GOP has no answer to Doug Jones. Jones is running great ads. Biden &

5/ Harris better learn how to connect kitchen table issues to "big, structural change" policies like Warren who excels at selling large-scale reform as common sense solutions to help families. It's great Kasich wants to defeat Trump in 2020, but in 2016 the only thing that made

6/ Kasich stand out from the bat-shit crazy crowd was that he loved to stuff his face with diner food. I thought he was going to join the cast of "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives." It's time for the Democrats to start talking about issues like goddamn adults.

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