*The post-conventions Democratic plan appears to have abandoned those ordinary strategies dependent on logic and instead is taking dead-aim at traditional conservative ("moderate") Republicans who are appalled by their party's nominee and embarrassed to be associated with him. Maybe they can be peeled away for this one election to vote for Hillary Clinton or, if not that, to at least stay home on Election Day.
*One would like to believe that eventually Trump -- an insecure, ignorant narcissist -- will keep shooting himself in the foot to the point where he reaches a tipping point and down he goes. But we can't count on Trump doing the work for us.
*A further-out hypothesis: Trump will never accept "loser" status and he doesn't really want to have to do the hard work of being the president; he has to be the victim of nefarious forces aligned against him. So he keeps on keeping on until he's dropped or loses, and he can blame those people who knifed him in the electoral back. With his supporters in place, he can then remain the major domo of the extremist right, with his very own storm troopers.
*No, as Bernie Sanders reminded us, our current political-revolution battle is not only about who gets the most electoral and popular votes on November 8, but who is also willing to stay organized and push the revolution/reform ball forward to combat the authoritarian cohort and push them to the political sidelines. Unless we do that, our work will have been largely in vain as new, more-sophisticated Donald Trumps emerge to drag our democracy downward into the mud of bad history.
That's why the down-ballot voting is so important. Retaking the Senate and House would be an enormous head start in the electoral/political battle. But even if Trump and the other extremists are denied an electoral victory, the struggle continues on November 9.
Organize. Organize! ORGANIZE!#
First posted August 7, 2016 by crisispapers.org
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