In 2004, not long before her death, the great Molly Ivens wrote a column that has stuck in my mind ever since. George Bush had just been re-elected. To quote:
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Well, look at it this way: You cannot keep a dog that kills chickens, no matter how fine a dog it is otherwise.
My friend John Henry Faulk always said the way to break a dog of that habit is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog's neck, good and strong. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so bad the dog won't be able to stand himself. You leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls off, and that dog won't kill chickens again.
The Bush Administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.
I can think of nothing more likely to convince the people not to vote for Republicans again for a long, long time than four more years of George W. Bush.
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The rest of the column is here: www.progressive.org/...
In this case it's not a matter of electing, its a matter of nominating. But the same logic applies. Donald Trump is the new dead chicken.
We Democrats, whatever our differences might be, should see this opportunity and take maximum advantage of it.
Molly did not live to see 2008 or 2010. I think she might be astonished by where we are today.
By defeating Donald Trump we have a chance to break the fever. That should be our first priority over everything else.