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Yes, Trump speaks to those dumbos at their own level. See, Trump is a dumbbell himself, but he’s very cunning, which fits in well with his narcissism. He loves the crowd adoration and will say anything at all to get the reaction he wants.
Yes, Trump speaks to those dumbos at their own level. See, Trump is a dumbbell himself, but he’s very cunning, which fits in well with his narcissism. He loves the crowd adoration and will say anything at all to get the reaction he wants.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday unveiled legislation that would be the first step toward implementing the Green New Deal. The draft bill is designed to address what the lawmakers describe as the third pillar of the Green New Deal — ensuring no community gets left behind.
Dubbed the Climate Equity Act, the legislation lays out steps for Congress and the White House to “guarantee that the policies comprising a future Green New Deal protect the health and economic wellbeing of all Americans for generations to come.”
“Climate change is an existential threat — it’s critical we act now to achieve a cleaner, safer, and healthier future. But it is not enough to simply cut emissions and end our reliance on fossil fuels. We must ensure that communities already contending with unsafe drinking water, toxic air, and lack of economic opportunity are not left behind,” Harris, a 2020 presidential candidate, said in a statement.
If Harris and her political strategy brain-trust were to establish it as their objective to position Kamala Harris as the most radical militant far left candidate currently running, what could they do that would top 1) Proposing legislation for "The Green New Deal," while 2) Partnering with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, perhaps the most radically radioactive politician in the entire US Congress right now?
This is astonishing. Clearly she is only concerned about her status in the primaries, because this kind of move will be devastating to her in a general election, if she happens to somehow win the nomination.
The message that this will send to people who are thoughtful about these matters is that she is not really on course to be a competitive candidate in a general election against Donald Trump. But it is not clear how many people who are poised to vote in the primaries for the Democrats are anywhere close to being that thoughtful.
Democrat strategist and commentator Doug Shoen thinks the divide between the far left and the more moderate wing of the party poses a grave danger to their hope of defeating Trump.
He thinks that Pocahontas won last night's debate and that she and Bernie are ideologically very similar and are battling it out for support among the far left of the party.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts emerged as the clear winner in the Democratic presidential primary debate Tuesday night, as she and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont battled for dominance in the far-left lane against eight more moderate candidates on stage. Warren controlled the discussion on implementing a single-payer health care system and also was the foremost candidate advocating for decriminalizing illegal border crossings.
A clear divide emerged between Warren and Sanders on the far left and the more moderate candidates, with South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota standing out. This divide poses a grave danger for whoever emerges as the Democratic presidential nominee. Unless Democrats can unite and put aside their differences they will face extraordinary difficulties defeating President Trump in November 2020.
I disagree that there is very much of a divide between any of these candidates. They are all quite far left, even Joe Biden. But this practice of the candidates all trying to outflank each other to the far left is surely not going to be helpful for them when the general election comes around.
Meanwhile, there is still an enormous void open for a true moderate Democrat, of the sort that we have not really seen much of since before Barack Obama came onto the scene. There are A LOT of voters who would vote for a candidate like that, if there was one running to vote for. Maybe this is what Shoen was trying to say.
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