Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Do you really think the BernieBros will make the same mistake twice? Certainly they can see that Trump is not just corrupt and incompetent but he is putting us all in real danger!
Some of them will. It’s about blowing up the “system”. Doesn’t matter to them if it’s from the left or the right. They want the chaos and opportunity to one-up other people “holding them back”.
Adding: there is and will be a large and sophisticated Russian (at least, perhaps other countries too) effort via bots and human agents/trolls to amplify the “BernieBro” dead-enders.
One of the challenges Dems face is to react-but-not-overreact to these efforts.
For the point about dragging the Reade allegations out, that reopens Trump to the same thing. I don’t think that line of attack will work on Biden given how the #MeToo movement has become a part of public consciousness, how her story keeps changing, and how Trump has 24 women telling substantially the same story about his predatory behavior. The other thing is that Biden merely needs to hold up the metaphorical mirror to Trump and his abysmal record. For health care, “I helped craft Obamacare. You’ve said since 2015 you had a plan to replace it. It’s been five… Read more »
You can bet that the Trumpists are scouring the nations sewer system for anyone or anything that can be used to smear Biden. I expect a half dozen or so more accusations and swift boat maneuvers along the lines of Reade’s, that will do all sorts of damage to Biden’s standing with the credulous electorate, but that will magically evaporate on Nov. 5. I hope that this time people (I’m looking at YOU, NY Times) see through it for the sham it is (will be).
I think you are mistaken on this one. There is an egregious omission in paragraph 3, you left out the word ‘racism’. It’s not that they necessarily ‘fear and hate the Democrats even more’ than Trump….it’s that they hate POC, and enjoy their suffering. His basement of 40% is the number of Americans who will NEVER vote for a political party that represents POC. It’s now beyond all doubt that racism is THE driving force with republicans…they are not even pretending to hide it. To leave it out is pundit malpractice. And their only hope, and what they will attempt… Read more »
Me, too.
Do you really think the BernieBros will make the same mistake twice? Certainly they can see that Trump is not just corrupt and incompetent but he is putting us all in real danger!
Some of them will. It’s about blowing up the “system”. Doesn’t matter to them if it’s from the left or the right. They want the chaos and opportunity to one-up other people “holding them back”.
Adding: there is and will be a large and sophisticated Russian (at least, perhaps other countries too) effort via bots and human agents/trolls to amplify the “BernieBro” dead-enders.
One of the challenges Dems face is to react-but-not-overreact to these efforts.
For the point about dragging the Reade allegations out, that reopens Trump to the same thing. I don’t think that line of attack will work on Biden given how the #MeToo movement has become a part of public consciousness, how her story keeps changing, and how Trump has 24 women telling substantially the same story about his predatory behavior. The other thing is that Biden merely needs to hold up the metaphorical mirror to Trump and his abysmal record. For health care, “I helped craft Obamacare. You’ve said since 2015 you had a plan to replace it. It’s been five… Read more »
You can bet that the Trumpists are scouring the nations sewer system for anyone or anything that can be used to smear Biden. I expect a half dozen or so more accusations and swift boat maneuvers along the lines of Reade’s, that will do all sorts of damage to Biden’s standing with the credulous electorate, but that will magically evaporate on Nov. 5. I hope that this time people (I’m looking at YOU, NY Times) see through it for the sham it is (will be).
I think you are mistaken on this one. There is an egregious omission in paragraph 3, you left out the word ‘racism’. It’s not that they necessarily ‘fear and hate the Democrats even more’ than Trump….it’s that they hate POC, and enjoy their suffering. His basement of 40% is the number of Americans who will NEVER vote for a political party that represents POC. It’s now beyond all doubt that racism is THE driving force with republicans…they are not even pretending to hide it. To leave it out is pundit malpractice. And their only hope, and what they will attempt… Read more »