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I don't think policy is completely irrelevant but I overall am with Rick on this. Donald Trump is a 12 alarm fire and Democrats seem to be bickering over what color begonias to plant in the window sill. Just explain why Trump must not be re-elected and why you should be.
Every time they open their mouths Dems should be explaining those two things:

1. How Trump has messed things up (gave tax cuts to the rich and you paid, tariffs killed your biz, let foreigners help him cheat and will again, made us Putin's poodle etc)

2. Why/how you'll fix it.
Explain how he's unfit to be president and a danger to America ... how he committed obstruction and violated the law and shamed us by mistreating little kids at the border and enabled white nationalists.

And how you'll turn it around and bring back our honor.
Get a healthcare question? Explain how he and his party are trying to steal your healthcare.

And how you'll stop him.

Policy is part of the argument, but it is not THE argument. If people trust the candidate they'll trust them on policy that "will help people like me."
People (most anyway) Trusted Barack Obama. He resonated with them. They trusted his instincts on having opposed the Iraq war. They felt good that voting for him would fix the problems Bush made. It wasn't the details of his healthcare plan that made him win.
People rolled their dice on Obama because they knew the country was in trouble and they trusted him to fix it. So policy matters but the CANDIDATE matters more. Like it or not most white voters trusted Trump, distressing as that is. They trusted him do defend "people like them."
The only question on the table for 2020 is who can inspire trust -- and just plain inspire -- the voters who see that what we are living through is deeply wrong, and are seeking a leader who can end the nightmare. Explain the threat. Tell us how you'll fix it. Fin.
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