progressive thinker Noam Chomsky: By Focusing on Russia, Democrats Handed Trump a “Huge Gift” & Possibly 2020 (speech, elections)

[travis t]

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/...ssia_democrats

Originally Posted by Noam Chomsky

And, I should say, the Democrats are helping him[Trump]. They are. Take the focus on Russiagate. What’s that all about? I mean, it was pretty obvious at the beginning that you’re not going to find anything very serious about Russian interference in elections....

The Democrats invested everything in this issue. Well, turned out there was nothing much there. They gave Trump a huge gift. In fact, they may have handed him the next election. That’s just a—that’s a matter of being so unwilling to deal with fundamental issues....

This is from the Q&A portion of a long speech--worth listening to. Noam Chomsky was a path-breaking linguist at MIT who now is devoted to political commentary. He gives major props to AOC in his speech. The full thing can be viewed here:
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/4/12

[turkeydance]

Trump does not have to "outrun the bear".
he only needs to outrun whoever else is running.