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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 09:02 AM Aug 2019

2020 will be the most polluted and expensive Presidential campaign in history.

Trump does not have a vision that can resonate with other than his core base and with the economy on the brink of a recession, a whole lot of ignorant that only care about their bank account, may well think twice before voting for him again. If Trump cannot bribe with the MAGA promises that have not born fruit he will inevitably go really dirty, and lie lie lie, it is all he can do…. There is nothing else there. He is like an empty vessel.

In a recent article in the New Statesman Todd May posed the following question...how do we preserve the norms of decency while resisting those for whom such norms are meaningless?

Democrats should do the opposite to those who have long lost their moral compass.... Tell the truth, swing from the heels, don't stop swinging and keep the message, strong, simple and easy to understand. After all as Harry Truman said: “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”

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