I am clipping this from Running Against the Devil. It is literally a “How To” book of how to beat the GOP. It cuts a lot deeper than this clip but you may get the idea. You have not yet run into anything from them that is remotely uncomfortable. Well, it is about to get real, I think. The people they have to get to - to win this are to the right of us on a lot of things. I think they have to go right of us — I have no fucking problem with it — I am just in for the win, as they say. You may have a problem with this type of amoral politics. Consider it a warning of what I think is likely to come as this goes deeper into the gutter.
“So ask yourselves: Even if this gets uncomfortable, are you in for the win? Are you willing to do the things you need to do? Are you (in the words of Van Jones) willing to drop the radical pose to achieve the radical ends…….. Are you willing to practice raw, pure, amoral politics before ideology?….
This part of the book will outline the campaign-killing myths of 2020. Pay attention. The final exam is in November 2020…..
Don’t think for a moment that Republicans won’t turn your well-meaning policy into operatic terror messages to be bellowed out by the Mighty Wurlitzer of the Trump right wing media apparatus. They have your number on this, and they are very, very good at ringing it. I did this to your candidates, over and over,and Trump has a dozen Rick Wilson types with an unlimited budget and zero shame….
There’s an organized system for creating these weaponized outrages. I know; I helped build it. Republican candidates and consultants exploited it in races across the country. No policy from the Democrats will ever be seen with even an iota of good faith, and everything they commit to a policy paper is like show notes for the latest Muslim Illegal Immigrant Sorors Deep State Antifa Hour on FOX….
Democrats don’t have to play by GOP and FOX (but I repeat myself) rules...”
It is all a game. They will have to go right just as they work with the progressives to get our vote out.
See it for what it is - when this starts. Tick, tick tick.
Joe