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I think Sanders is going to have a hard time fighting the GOP hate machine if he's the candidate (doesn't matter what your unfavorables are, if you don't have weaknesses they will be assigned to you) but seriously, David Frum didn't exactly know who was electable in 2016, did he?
Saying that Democrats should learn from Sanders to be "left but not woke" ignores that "woke" is an empty buzzword in this usage.

Whatever the Democratic platform is, it will be derided as "woke".
If David Frum's preferred candidate gets the Democratic nomination and adopts his beliefs as their platform, he will himself deride it as "woke PC virtue signaling" and tack further to the right, to see what else he can get out of them.

That's the game.
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Big question, so I'm making a new thread.

I do not, and I don't think it's possible, short-term.

And part of that effect is Trump and part of it is his base and part of it is the way the media and electorate have been tuned by the GOP for decades.

Part of it is that Trump just does not care and will not stop until someone stops him. In many cases, PHYSICALLY. Stuff "sticks" to politicians because they acknowledge it, if not in the sense of "Yes, that's true. I resign." but they... pull back. Grow cautious.
"The Access Hollywood Tapes would have ended most politicians' campaigns." is an almost invisible use of passive construction. The truth is: most politicians would have ended their campaigns, figuring it's better to do it on their terms and cut their losses than fight and lose.
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My biggest problem with the "Trump is petrified of running against Biden" narrative is something I alluded to yesterday when talking about Bernie in the general election:

The GOP hate machine will do this to whoever the opponent is. With the same force and fervor.
When the opponent is not a respectable older white male, we get people who start saying "Gee, this person has so many unfavorables. Maybe we should find a candidate with fewer weak points."

When it's someone like Biden, it becomes, "The enemy is terrified. Good."
And that right there is a weakness in how we view the field. It shows our bias as an electorate, that the exact same behavior BY THE GOP (not the candidate) is viewed as a strength for a white man and a weakness for anyone else.
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