re: #239 ericblair

…Everyone on the Dem side is completely paranoid about Republicans stealing the election and don’t have to be warned off of overconfidence. If anything, it’s just hopelessness it’s encouraging. 2020 isn’t 2016, go out there and vote and get all the assholes out of office.

Paranoid is precisely what we should be. No one will ever say that Nate Silver is pessimistic, and today his model still gives Trump one chance in seven of winning. That would mean the end of American democracy and a grave threat to the entire planet. Those odds are not acceptable.

We need every damn vote, and we don’t need to fall back on our comfortable habit of attacking lefty progressives, and blue-dog Dems, and millenials, and boomers, and every other one of our planes of cleavage. Work scared, campaign scared, donate scared.