Election 2020

[David Horn]

(04-18-2019, 01:05 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Oh well. McAuliffe decided to devote his energy to Virginia. He, like everyone else, thinks we have a good line-up of candidates and that one of them can beat Trump. He and everyone is wrong.

Trump is the favorite among all the candidates running, or who might run. This is a sad day. Our supreme court is going to have a right-wing majority. This will be very hard to overcome, along with all the other federal courts with right-wing judges.

No matter how badly things look in these state polls that brower posts, don't be fooled. Trump is likely to win now.

Perhaps that's true.  We certainly deserve it.  No one on the left has focused on the important issues affecting almost everyone for decades.  Instead, they've spent their time on narrow social issues that are touchstones to groups within the Dem coalition, and anathema to others, both inside and out.  That's not a prescription for winning.  So here we are.

At that, I never saw McAuliffe as a viable option anyway.  He's a salesman, and a good one.  We don't need a salesman.  We need a visionary.  The GOP went through this awakening in 1964, by running the massively outgunned Barry Goldwater.  He was crushed, but 16 years later: Reagan!  The Dems have avoided putting it out there for decades.  Now the entire chicken ranch has come to roost.  

If your goal is leadership but you have no courage of your convictions, no one else will either. That's the Dems for the last 40 years.