The bottom line in all this, folks, is that there is no smoking gun here. The Democrats must stop this fishing expedition and move on, if they are to prevent Trump being President 5 years hence. And the only way they have left to do that is to go to the voters. They will have to convince enough Americans to vote Democrat, and to do that, they're going to have reach the swing voters who put him in in the first place. Trump cannot win in 2020 without them.
So, go back to the issues, and build your message and your campaign on those, Democrats. Focus on what those swing voters want: better insurance and lower drug costs, sensible immigration without wide open borders and racism, and the United States' place in the world. He is vulnerable in all those areas.
Yes, he's got the economy on his side at the moment, but that is not a reliable friend -- governments have a lot less control over how economies play out over time than they think they do, and it can turn with scarcely a moment's notice.
Focus on some of the cruel stuff Trump has done: separating children from parents, cutting benefits for the poor while increasing the deficit to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy (like himself), hurting the economy with stupid tariff wars, turning your democratic allies into enemies while cozying up to despots. Notice, please, that Iran and North Korea remain severe security threats.
And look at the man himself, the ample evidence of racism, narcissism, pandering to his own private interests, his erratic, often bizarre behaviour. Nobody needs an indictment to tell them what kind of man he is, or to ask themselves, "is that the kind of man I want as the President of my United States?"
So, go back to the issues, and build your message and your campaign on those, Democrats. Focus on what those swing voters want: better insurance and lower drug costs, sensible immigration without wide open borders and racism, and the United States' place in the world. He is vulnerable in all those areas.
Yes, he's got the economy on his side at the moment, but that is not a reliable friend -- governments have a lot less control over how economies play out over time than they think they do, and it can turn with scarcely a moment's notice.
Focus on some of the cruel stuff Trump has done: separating children from parents, cutting benefits for the poor while increasing the deficit to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy (like himself), hurting the economy with stupid tariff wars, turning your democratic allies into enemies while cozying up to despots. Notice, please, that Iran and North Korea remain severe security threats.
And look at the man himself, the ample evidence of racism, narcissism, pandering to his own private interests, his erratic, often bizarre behaviour. Nobody needs an indictment to tell them what kind of man he is, or to ask themselves, "is that the kind of man I want as the President of my United States?"
