13th July 2020, 5:54 AM
I am really very suspicious about the disgruntled neocons who want to help. Yes, Trump has to go, and the enemy of our enemy, etc. etc., but what happens after? Do they go back to the Republicans and try to re-assert their power? Or, do they remain allied with the Democrats and, in return for their 'help', start to assert influence over the party platform? The latter is a serious concern, given that centrist Democrats really aren't far from neoconservatives on foreign policy and trade.
It bears repeating that Donald Trump is not the illness, he's a visible symptom of an illness, which is always going to come back stronger in a few years if Democrats win this election and do not run like hell with the mandate America gives them. The Democrats have the clout and power to start normalizing left-wing politics (which are much closer to centrism than communism by any rational measure). Democrats must take steps to ideologically oppose right wing reactionism and that opposition must be loud, aggressive, and backed by serious action. If we treat 2020 like 2008, and reject fundamental change in favor of continuing the decades-long strategy of letting the right dictate the terms of politics in this country, we will end up with much worse than Donald Trump.
It bears repeating that Donald Trump is not the illness, he's a visible symptom of an illness, which is always going to come back stronger in a few years if Democrats win this election and do not run like hell with the mandate America gives them. The Democrats have the clout and power to start normalizing left-wing politics (which are much closer to centrism than communism by any rational measure). Democrats must take steps to ideologically oppose right wing reactionism and that opposition must be loud, aggressive, and backed by serious action. If we treat 2020 like 2008, and reject fundamental change in favor of continuing the decades-long strategy of letting the right dictate the terms of politics in this country, we will end up with much worse than Donald Trump.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
WE STAND AT THE DOOR
WE STAND AT THE DOOR