What Beto O'Rourke Could Unleash on Trump

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What Beto O’Rourke Could Unleash on Trump

February 22, 2019 at 11:05 am EST By Taegan Goddard 145 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/22/what-beto-orourke-could-unleash-on-trump/

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Sasha Issenberg: “O’Rourke is now on the precipice of running for president with ‘losing Senate candidate’ as the most impressive line on his résumé. It was how he chose to run that campaign last year that sets him apart from his potential Democratic rivals. O’Rourke cast aside the hard-won heirlooms of Barack Obama’s campaigns: a vogue for data science, the grooming of a professional organizing class and a dedication to the humanism of one-on-one tutelage. Instead, his campaign followed principles that more closely resemble what Silicon Valley types call ‘hyperscale’—a system flexible enough to expand at exponential speed, paired with an understanding that getting big quickly can excuse and justify all kinds of other shortcomings.”

“In political terms, it amounted to a massive bet on a strategy of mobilizing infrequent voters instead of trying to win over dependable ones. National campaign strategists are paying close attention to how O’Rourke did it: Few candidates have committed as fully, if a bit recklessly, to the belief that a monomaniacal focus on large-scale turnout is the most powerful tool Democrats have to capitalize on their latent numerical majority in the United States.”

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[RussBLib]

1. still think Beto needs to run for John Cornyn's seat and get it before running for Prez.

We could sure use Beto in the Senate.

[frazzled]

2. "getting big quickly can excuse and justify all kinds of other shortcomings"

Well, that's really cynical. Shortcomings of the candidates (as well as the strengths) are precisely what we should be looking at.

If it's all about getting the big whoop early (and don't look at the rest), then we could run, I dunno, Cardi B.

[applegrove]

4. The republicans run dyslexics who can connect... then when in power they

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make sure they follow the layed out GOP agenda. They do it again and again: Reagan, Bush (when he thought for himself once and raised taxes they made him pay) ,Bush, Trump (some of his agenda is his own so help us god: trade wars, leaving Syria, separating families at the border etc.). In history JFK, Ted Kennedy, Woodrow Wilson, Elianor Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt and Churchill were dyslexic. In Canada Trudeau and Chretien are. Dyslexics are not picking up on details until they form a pattern (details are preconscious until they repeat and thus form a pattern). Then look out. Imagine if the the world you saw were all the patterns? You certaily would see the forest for the trees. You would not get lost in details like Hillary. Dyslexics are experts at reading a crowd. At counter punching. At the big picture (except for Trump). And dyslexia says nothing about how smart someone can be. It is just a different organization of the brain. So dyslexics can be great presidents or bad ones if they are being spoon fed lower taxes and destroying social programs by the right. Depends who is feeding them the details. I don't know if Beto is dyslexic but he can certainly read a crowd like the Kennedys could. He certainly excels at the big picture. Only time will tell if he has the gravitas to be a great leader at a national level. And choose the very best policies from the world once he gets into power.

[CrossingTheRubicon]

3. I think Beto running would put the Bernie Sanders' campaign into free-fall...

which suites me quite fine.

I'm sure Bernie's supporters see it the same way.