What Kind of Democrat Can Beat Trump in 2020? (NYTimes)

[kentuck]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/midterms-democrats-trump-2020.html?fbclid=IwAR13MPjejm4f1BakBUN14bpKNoWlv3ogm260kMGLgoGFk3YoLggoQcaNU0w

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Trump’s eventual adversary confronts a daunting balancing act: He or she must be tougher than usual without being callous, mingle the right measure of pugilism with optimism, and avoid the self-examination and self-recrimination that never trap Trump.

Philippe Reines, a longtime spokesman for Hillary Clinton, made that point funnily in an op-ed essay in The Washington Post in March, counseling Trump’s would-be challengers: “Don’t apologize. Ever. Not over money you took from Harvey Weinstein. Not even for attacking the pope. In fact, proactively attack the pope. Your kid is a shoplifter? You’re proud of them for exposing inadequate security.”

But for starters, Trump’s Democratic opponent must emerge. And that will be tricky in a field of prospective candidates that’s about three-dozen-people large at present.

“Nobody’s ever seen anything like this,” said Jim Jordan, who initially managed John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. “The field is so big it’s duplicative. We have multiple candidates from Massachusetts. Multiple from California. Multiple Western governors. Multiple women. Multiple billionaires.” At the first debates, Jordan added, “There’s going to be a kids’ table for the kids’ table.”

[beachbum bob]

1. The kind that look at trump in the eye on the same stage and say you are nothing

But a f*cking LIAR.

That is the how in why Hillary lost. There is no niceness with confronting a liar. You call them out in front of the world. What democrat could do it...the only one I can say for sure is Gillum...not Harris, not warren or any of the others

[bearsfootball516]

2. The last paragraph is painfully accurate.

"Too many Democrats spend too much time trumpeting Clinton’s popular-vote victory, blaming the Russians or combing the shadows for anything that absolves them of error. They dismiss Trump as an accident, a freak or a fad. It’s consoling, sure. It’s also an invitation to his next inauguration."