Sunday, November 20, 2016
business as usual?
One of George's colleagues makes some interesting points here. I have issues with several aspects of his argument (umm, the protests are not sour grapes about the election outcome, they're substantive responses to key elements of Trump's racist, sexist, xenophobic platform) (also too: evidence of corruption [e.g., Trump U, the "blind trust"] does not fall under the rubric of "personality" and is always, always relevant). But some of this analysis strikes me as right on. I'm persuaded that for the most part we've got to stick to the issues, including putting pressure on him to come through on the ones we agree on. Bizarrely enough, treating him like a normal politician could be his undoing.
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totes agree with this plus all of your qualifications, penny. in particular, i am encouraged by the number of protests. people should be pissed and vocal and relentless.
but this, for sure. hrc's campaign had no overarching message that people could get behind:
"Hillary Clinton was so focused on explaining how bad Mr. Trump was that she too often didn’t promote her own ideas, to make the positive case for voting for her. The news media was so intent on ridiculing Mr. Trump’s behavior that it ended up providing him with free advertising.
And an opposition focused on personality would crown Mr. Trump as the people’s leader of the fight against the Washington caste. It would also weaken the opposition voice on the issues, where it is important to conduct a battle of principles"
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