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MineralMan

(146,317 posts) Sun Jun 3, 2018, 01:24 PM Jun 2018

As Long as Republicans Control Congress, Trump Can Get Away

with anything, really. Impeachment is really our only protection against a rogue President. Clearly, the current Congress would not impeach and convict Trump.

The answer? The 2018 election. If we don't GOTV with a massive effort, we could lose. If we lose, Trump will be able to do as he pleases.

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As Long as Republicans Control Congress, Trump Can Get Away (Original Post) MineralMan Jun 2018 OP

In order of importance - this is it WA-03 Democrat Jun 2018 #1

Exactly. There's no way to overstate the importance of the 2018 election. MineralMan Jun 2018 #2

Also important to elect Democrats at the state and local muntrv Jun 2018 #3

Absolutely. If we get Democrats out to vote in massive numbers, MineralMan Jun 2018 #4

There's an undercurrent of anti-Trump sentiment among the GOP FakeNoose Jun 2018 #5

I think that many Republicans who dislike Trump will MineralMan Jun 2018 #6

GOTV Gothmog Jun 2018 #7

WA-03 Democrat

(3,050 posts)

1. In order of importance - this is it

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Sun Jun 3, 2018, 01:38 PM

Jun 2018

November will our Republic’s finest or final hour.

The Congress is not keeping the Executive branch in check and laws learned from Watergate have expired. This coupled with Gerrymandering, voter suppression, social media manipulation, Citzen’s United, the hacking bastards from Russia, China, North Korean does make this the most meaningful election in our history. What we have is precious and has been stolen.

Vote Democrat top to bottom.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

2. Exactly. There's no way to overstate the importance of the 2018 election.

Reply to WA-03 Democrat (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 3, 2018, 01:51 PM

Jun 2018

We either get it won or we have failed dismally. We can't afford to fail.

muntrv

(14,505 posts)

3. Also important to elect Democrats at the state and local

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Sun Jun 3, 2018, 02:48 PM

Jun 2018

level.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

4. Absolutely. If we get Democrats out to vote in massive numbers,

Reply to muntrv (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 3, 2018, 02:50 PM

Jun 2018

we'll elect Democrats to office at all levels. That's all part of the goal of GOTV.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)

5. There's an undercurrent of anti-Trump sentiment among the GOP

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Sun Jun 3, 2018, 03:12 PM

Jun 2018

They're not a MAGA idiots, but they're not necessarily going to jump ship either. By that I mean they're not magically turning into Democrats, just because they might see a problem or two with Trump.

So how can we capitalize on that? I don't know the answer but we need to figure this out. Remember when Roy Moore lost the special election in Alabama? A whole bunch of Republicans stayed home and didn't vote that day. The black women showed up and voted for Doug Jones, and that put him into the win column. It's because both things happened on the same day.

I think all the negative news about Moore really hammered home about what a bad candidate he was. Democrats have to be willing to do the negative stuff sometimes. We can't be going "high" all the time, and we can't ignore it when the opponents go "low." Certainly negative advertising has to be part of any winning strategy.