Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. Have the Democrats forgotten the youth vote? I tend to dwell in the @MSNBC echo-chamber that is far from a bastion of youthful faces. What do 18 year old voters think? Are they even registered? For so many cycles young voter performance was so abysmal that I think campaigns

2. just tend to write them off. Barack Obama was good at motivating young voters and twice it proved to be a foundation for his victory. His quiet self-effacing demeanor struck a chord among a group that rejects bullying and derisiveness as part of its hardwired DNA.

3. Trump and the Fascists project armed bullies threatening everyone and that works to suppress the normal youth vote that shun involvement in politics that would expose them to the Fascist base. Trump's Hitler youth demo was on full display in Kenosha where

4. a 17 year-old proudly strode the streets armed with a weapon of war intent to show Der Führer, the only person who showed any interest in him, that he was ready to kill for his race and its leader. That person is so far removed from the liberal progressive focused

5. youth as to be almost indistinguishable. But what the 17 year-old murderer would do if he was given a chance that many 18 to 25 year-olds of the progressive ilk won't do, is vote. He'd vote. And when the decent youth vote stays home, the Fascist win.

6. Older adult Black voters will turn out this year. We continue to focus on them as a key to victory that they indeed are but a narrow focus becomes self-defeating if it results in the lack of engagement with white middle-class Latino and Black youth voters who may feel this

7. isn't their fight. Do we even poll youth voters? What can we do to see that they are registered? Time is running out on registrations and I've seen little if any effort by the @TheDemocrats to push for registrations among this key untapped piece of our electorate.

8. Where are the potential youth voters on-line? If the answer is @facebook @instagram & @snapchat we're in big trouble because that's where the GRU is. Trump will destroy America. He has shown a willingness to kill millions of Americans to keep from admitting his failure.

9. We are close to the point of no-return and we must expand the focus on all demographics and begin to seek the broadest possible turnout from every group. Where are the youth influencers? Trump got @kanyewest to commit felonies for him. What have we gotten?

10. I can't imagine the sadness and fear that many young people must feel in this hell-scape that our generation has left them. It is understandable if they just reject it and don't vote. That is clearly the Fascist strategy. What is our plan? And @TomPerez has done nothing that

11. has moved the needle on this group. We can't expect a dysfunctional Democratic party still burdened with special interests to do it. It's up to us. We must venture into this space to engage this key part of the electorate or prepare for the end of Democracy.

12. School loan relief and jobs are likely things that will motivate them. What has Trump offered them? Nothing. Not even a decent minimum wage. I don't have all the answers but I know one thing for certain, if we rally this group we will sweep the Fascist from the field.

13. If we don't, we may look back on this nightmare as the good old days. 45 days to go. #EyesOnThePrize @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris @SpeakerPelosi @SenSchumer @BernieSanders @SenWarren