How Democrats Defeat Donald Trump

[elleng]

'Stop talking so much about the America that he’s destroying. Save your breath for the America you want to create.

Surprise, surprise: Donald Trump has no bottom. Just when you think he has sunk as low as he can, he stages a rally like that atrocity in North Carolina on Wednesday night and sinks lower. But the key takeaway isn’t that he’s a demagogue or a racist: These were facts put into evidence long ago. It’s that Democrats can’t afford to take unnecessary risks, dream deferrable dreams and engage in avoidable distractions as they set about the urgent work of defeating him. The 2020 election isn’t about getting everything that Democrats want and that Americans deserve. It’s about getting rid of Trump, because the price of not doing so could be this nation’s very soul.

The Democratic Party and the Democratic candidates for president need to be smarter, more realistic and more disciplined than they are now. Enough with internal feuding. Enough with taking the president’s bait and bumbling into his traps. If he sets the terms of the political discussion, he wins.

He wants to spend the 15 months between now and Election Day talking about “the squad”: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley. Democrats mustn’t follow suit. Absolutely they should defend the four congresswomen, and make clear that they are every bit as American as Trump is. In taking issue with his leadership and finding fault with our country, they’re exercising and honoring our most dearly held rights, which the president is trampling on.

So say that once, loud and clear. Maybe say it twice. Then move on. Trump wants to define all Democrats in terms of the squad, when they’re but a part of a diverse party and hardly its ideological proxies. So don’t let him. Don’t let all the other issues get muscled off the stage. If everyone’s talking about Omar, no one’s talking about health care or jobs: the stuff that actually turns elections and will turn this one. If Trump has his way, this campaign will be a bogus referendum on a bastard definition of patriotism. It will be a race-obsessed and racist jubilee. Don’t play along.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/opinion/sunday/trump-squad-democrats-2020.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Call him out and then move on to the issues. Don't let Trump define the rules.

[Iliyah]

2. t-rump is pure evil.

Majority of Americans know that. EC is what t-rump is banking on.

The Republican party have been stealing the presidency for sometime now. We need to vote in huge numbers, especially in the EC states. Although I'm pretty sure they will do their best in flipping the machines.

For so called "God" fearing people, Republicans align themselves with the devil.

[mopinko]

3. hey nyt- when you gonna pitch in?

not giving them the click to see who wrote this. but gimme a break.
if this is from the editorial board, i would like to suggest an intervention.

[elleng]

4. Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni has been with The Times since 1995 and held a variety of jobs — including White House reporter, Rome bureau chief and chief restaurant critic — before becoming a columnist in 2011. He is the author of three best-selling books.