"if the election had been on oct 27 i would be your president"
stay not taking any responsibility brehs
an easy 2020 win is still available for any democrat with the moral fortitude and/or balls to drift to the center and take the high road overall
hard to have sympathy for people that repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot by way of doubling-down
even if i think a lot of shit is blown out of proportion, at the end of the day, it's trump. cmon dems, it's trump. figure it out
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when they go low we go high? whatever happened to that
I know it has already been ridiculed but I will go ahead anyways...
Isn't that essentially what Hillary tried to do?
- She made measurable and semi solid in-roads in suburban white areas of the country.
- Chose Tim Kaine, an appeal to centrism, over any number of more progressive candidates that could of helped strategically shore up some aspect of the base better.
- Tried to argue she was the mainstream candidate and the other guy beyond the pale.
- Never really took ownership of her "most progressive ever" platform. Sort of did an updated version of the whole 90's Clinton triangulation strategy of signaling to the left in white papers and the primary's but campaigning with rhetoric aimed at the perceived center.
This is an election where the Republican candidate made a splash because he co-opted arguments that used to be taboo post-Reagan: overt protectionism, unapologetic support for UHC, government control in the economy, major infrastructure spending.
Which then begs the question, what exactly is the "center" these days anyways? And are we even in a situation where centrism can overcome the disillusionment it will do to an anti-establishment base and thaw the tribalism of a country where people on the right have pretty much proven that the bar is even higher then Trump to get them to break party loyalties?
