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Black Country Communion (Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham): "Collide"

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Targetpractice3/04/2018 3:19:10 pm PST

re: #65 Jay C

Well, when both these factors go against you, what can you do?

In theory, perhaps: in (political) reality, probably a pretty bad strategy.
The upcoming elections are a midterm: 435 local elections and 34 statewide ones: while approval/disapproval of the Administration is an unavoidable background to all of them, the last thing the Democrats need, as the default Opposition, is to turn off ANY potential voters. And - whatever one might think of the principle of the thing - demanding any sort of “contrition” from the electorate (outside of what votes they cast in the secrecy of the ballot-box) is probably a sure loser. I have a feeling enough Trump/Republican voters from the last election are suffering from “buyer’s remorse” to shift to a creditable Democrat in the next one. Doing anything - ANYTHING - to turn them off is likely to prove political suicide. And if means swallowing one’s snark and (however grudgingly) embracing the old “let’s look forward, not back” pitch (at least as far as a national strategy), so be it: we can mock the Trumpista fools later (post-impeachment?)….

But where does that leave us in 2 years when we’ve done nothing to address the wrong-headed thinking that gave us Trump? We gave these folks a pass after 2000, thinking that Gore was just a poor candidate and “buyers remorse” would win us 2004. But instead Dubya did just well enough that all those folks mumbling about how voting for him in 2000 was a bad idea were “willing to give him another chance” because they feared what would happen if went with the “surrender party.” In 2 years, Trump may be doing well enough in the polls that these folks right now expressing regret might just shrug their shoulders and vote for him again.