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Tim Wise
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My essay for the Washington Post...How do you beat Trump in 2020? The same way we beat David Duke in 1991. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
...a brief note. If u click the link in this piece that takes u to the various TV ads that either our group or the Democratic Party in LA ran, the You Tube title says these were all from 91. That's wrong. The 1st ad--the one I say was deeply flawed in the piece--was from 1990...
and of course this was a stripped down version of what I argued in my. twitter thread from Sunday...still captured the essence. I'll be putting together longer pieces, with more material fleshed out in coming days...stay tuned
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1/ While policy/ideology are fine reasons 2 support/oppose candidates, in POTUS races I find it amazingly ignorant when we lefties play purity police. It's like some actually think if certain folk win, "poof" we get single payer & major wealth taxes. Like the Senate doesn't exist
2/ ...as if normal rules of political compromise no longer apply...the average 8th grader understands reality better. And I say this as someone who supports left policy, but in POTUS races, candidates talking bout things they can't do w/o congress are largely wasting our time...
3/ This is why it's important 4 candidates 2 present broad ethical visions of the country; to stand up for pluralism & multicultural democracy against Trumpism (more so than focus on policy specifics) and to the extent they talk policy, talk about things POTUS can do directly
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Tim Wise
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1/ I love when folks say Trump is a strategic genius every time he does or says racist stuff. Like he's luring Dems into a trap. Y'all, this guy is an emotional 11 year old. When was the last time you met an 11 year old strategic genius? He's been conning folks for 45 years...
2/ He couldn't make casinos work in Atlantic City. He inherited or received directly hundreds of millions from his dad. He was worth a million at the age of 8 and still filed bankruptcy multiple times. I got $5 a week in allowance from my grandmother...haven't filed it once...
3/ He's no genius. He's a con man & a tween in a 70-plus yr old body. Being intimidated or scared of him is beneath pathetic. Stand up 2 him & he folds like all bullies. He's a joke, but worse are those who let him get in their heads. He's not a genius. He's a grifter. Period.
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1/ The other reason why I think a values-based message (pluralism and multicultural democracy vs Trumpism's politics of prejudice) is a better bet than a policy focus 4 Dems is the need to build a broad coalition to defeat Trump and Trumpism as a political force...
2/ It might b possible 2 defeat Trump narrowly w/a base election. So, in PA, WI & MI, if the Dem turnout rivals Obama's, Trump loses at least 2 of those. But if the election is close in those states and others (so that say, he loses those by the same margin he won them before)...
3/ It will be much easier 4 him to claim the election was stolen. He'll claim it anyway, but the closer things are the more will believe it. And the more dangerous their reaction will be. If Trump(ism) is handily rejected, that narrative becomes harder to sustain...
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