Donald Trump is incredibly dangerous.

[UCmeNdc]

Top liberals and leading progressive groups perceive the GOP front-runner as a dangerous and unprecedented threat.

Leading liberals and progressive groups are turning their gaze away from the Democratic primary and toward efforts to unite the left against Donald Trump, framing him as a dangerous and unprecedented candidate who poses an existential threat to the progressive movement and the nation.

Ad campaigns are in the works. There are calls for massive voter mobilizations and screeds from leading donors circulating within liberal circles. Major labor groups are organizing their members on the ground in swing states. Within the Democratic Party apparatus, top elected leaders are beginning to speak out both collectively and individually in ways that reach beyond standard presidential-year posturing. The sense of urgency in some corners of the left is high enough that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a progressive icon who has gone to great lengths to avoid being part of the Democratic presidential conversation in 2016, hinted on Monday that she might soon get involved with the effort to stop Trump.


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[BeyondGeography]

1. Our military in his hands?

If that doesn't concentrate your mind, nothing will.

[Gregorian]

2. He's a billion dollar threat.

Is it just me, or does his money power frighten anyone else? I mean, he can do things other people can't. He could conceivably finance some illegal arm of the Pentagon out of his own pocket.

I don't know, and I don't want to find out. Which brings to mind, Dems must run our strongest candidate. I think you know where this is going. It's about Trump.

[LonePirate]

3. There seems to be a sizable contingent of one candidate's supporters who doesn't realize this.

[world wide wally]

4. It's too bad we don't own the media

The worst thing you could do to Trump is ignore him.
But since we have no control over the media, I think the way to get under his skin at a debate would be to not react to him and just pretend he isn't there.
I am pretty sure he would turn a bright red just before he exploded.

[pampango]

5. "Signed by leaders of more than 20 leading liberal groups that support Clinton or Bernie Sanders,

the letter described Trump in the harshest of terms and called for a massive organizing effort against him.

The letter, released Tuesday, served as a public acknowledgment of the heightened apprehension surrounding Trump’s candidacy, as well as a sign that leaders in the party’s left wing are now setting their sights more squarely on Trump than the protracted Democratic nomination battle between Clinton and Sanders.

“As more and more progressive groups were with each other in the early primary states and talking about our general organizing, we decided to link our fights and invite others to join us,” explained Henry.

The question of what to do about Trump has gone from a bad joke to a topic of frequent conversation among leading Democrats including members of Congress. As Trump has stormed toward the GOP nomination, confounding the Republican establishment and steamrolling veteran officeholders in his path, liberal leaders have come to conclude that the time has come to more seriously confront Trump — whom, they warn, could actually win the White House."

[dubyadiprecession]

6. Please leave trump alone until after he wins the nomination..

[spanone]

7. i agree

he screams dangerous

[LongTomH]

8. Imagine if Hitler had nukes!

With all the comparisons of Trump and Hitler, we miss the fact that Hitler didn't have nukes, even the rather primitive nuclear weapons of the 1940s. The United States currently has 4,760 nuclear or thermonuclear weapons, almost all of them many times greater in yield than the ones used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Needless to say, using a fraction of these weapons, perhaps 1%, would probably produce a nuclear winter, along with millions of people killed directly by blast and radiation.

The President, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief, has the go-codes[/blockquote to unleash these weapons on real (or in Trump's case: imaginary) adversaries.

[felix_numinous]

9. Bill Clinton encouraged Trump to run for president

I wonder what sort of deal was made, if any? I'm sure we'll find that out shortly.

[ladjf]

10. Ignorance, power and megalomania are a dangerous personality cocktail. nt