In the coming days and weeks we are going to witness countless hysterical variations on “The witch hunt congressional investigations are Presidential harassment by sore loser Socialist Democrats and are harming the country because I have to work on them instead of running the country”. Trump’s message WILL resonate with his cult of personality base. Dems need to have a pithy but pointed response to plainly counter this endlessly repeated message. I propose something along the lines of
“The appalling stench of corruption and dishonesty from the White House has been allowed to fester for 2 years. The Russian situation is only one part of a much larger issue. It is time to do the hard work of cleaning it up”. Or course more detail can and should be added, but lets hammer THIS essential point home everywhere, everyday. Public perception is hugely important.
Secondly, when asked about (Whatever twitter tirade the President launched recently) “We all know that most of the country no longer even pretends that Donald Trump ever tells the truth, so his public statements are increasingly sad and irrelevant”
Democrats can differ on policy specifics regarding climate change, income inequality, and umpteen other things- a healthy public policy debate is a good thing. However, on the issue of dishonesty and corruption we can be united as one (Pissed off and patriotic ) party.
The President is implicated in felony crimes even as we speak. There is little doubt that more crimes will be exposed and we as a nation will be faced with whether we have the fortitude to admit that the President is a criminal and must be removed. Impeachment will be spark volatile disagreement and discord in this country, and nobody wants that. However, if the President has committed crimes at some point it becomes our moral duty as custodians of the constitution to remove a criminal from the oval office. and as aggressive Democrat oversight gets underway (81 document requests today) the President is going to fight back with the feral desperation that is his home turf. Dems need to remind the country what the essential problem is...namely ““The appalling stench of corruption and dishonesty from the White House has been allowed to fester for 2 years. The Russian situation is only one part of a much larger issue. It is time to do the hard work of cleaning it up”.