There aren’t many Republican consultants I would give any credence to, but Rick Wilson is one of them:
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There aren’t many Republican consultants I would give any credence to, but Rick Wilson is one of them:
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Rick Wilson aside, the political-class in the UK and the US has failed miserably which is what has given rise to “grievance politics.”
“For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction,” hence Brexit and Trump.
The political-class in both Germany and France is teetering on the precipice of failure.
Clearly Fascism is on the march in the West. (Romania, Poland, Hungry.)
The good news is that the people of Ukraine are poised to elect a comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as their next president and Leftist, Zuzana Caputoua, became the president of Slovakia with 60% of the vote last week.
Some seem to have figured out that the reigning political-class in every country are simply tools of the corrupt oligarchs.
Marianne Williamson is a very interesting, perhaps even intriguing, newly announced Democratic
candidate for president.
Rick Wilson seems very earnest but I have to disagree. He’s never run a Democratic primary presidential campaign, so of course he’s suggesting Republican style dirty tricks: They’re the only tools in his toolbox.
I think the best campaign I ever saw was Bill Clinton’s in 1992. For whiny rubes and grievance hicks it’s enough to run a purely negative campaign (paging Rick Wilson!), but a Democrat needs to project a plan with specific legislation to show how he/she is going to make things better. Clinton proposed all sorts of things, drilled into the details, and created a sense of inevitability that his legislation would pass. He also had a rapid-response team that threw water on the various GOP skunks every time they tried to stink things up on the campaign trail. And he chased GHWB from venue to venue when GHWB didn’t want to debate Clinton, which highlighted weakness.
I think that if a nominee gets specific–like AOC Green New Deal specific–on a variety of issues, and run real leftist campaigns instead of weak, compromised DLC weenie loser campaigns, and not a scorched earth Neera Tanden/Rahm Emmanuel/Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democrat-in-Name-Only con job, they can win against Trump.
Beto is doomed. He’s pulling a fast one on unsophisticated Democrats because he has a largely Republican-leaning voting record and he has all this vague, gauzy, vaseline-lensed happy talk about sounds good, like Obama, but lacks specifics, like Obama. Harris has too many negatives in light of the terrible things she did as CA AG to people who would form a base in a primary. Just like another Republican. Warren used to be a Republican, though she has attractive policies and a track record of accomplishments. There seems to be a disconnect between her campaign and creating the right optics. Bernie has a long line of legislative accomplishments and very clear policies, but the same hateful Clintonistas who for a while dragged on Obama in his first years as president and vowed never to forgive him, have trained their sights on Sanders. I think they just like being negative and circular firing squads.
One thing seems clear: The young people in this country are overwhelmingly capital-L Left, they are engaged, and the sooner we hand over the reigns to people like AOC the better things will be for everyone. The kids are all right. They know what cooks. We should trust them. Especially if we want them to pay for our Social Security. They should have more responsibility and better-paying jobs. Now. And we should make college free or as extremely accommodating and affordable as it was for the baby boomers.