Win in November With Tactics, Strategy and LOTS of Hard Work
Mike Kersmarki
Secretary, Hillsborough County Industrial Development Authority, in a career spanning financial journalism to politics.
The Socialist Democrats are now down to a two-person race.
Critical primaries are fast approaching next Tuesday in Michigan (and five other states) and on March 17 in Florida, three other states and the Northern Marianas.
With all the noise, it will be VERY easy to get annoyed by many of the ridiculous things that Irritable Bernie Syndrome and Sleepy Joe drone on about and the predictable and oh-so-tiresome antics of their supporters.
For instance, it's a slam-dunk certainty that many so-called progressives and their socialist first cousins no longer believe in the Bill of Rights & Constitution. They will use any kind of 'ism', 'ist' or 'phobe' to shame people into silence & squelch freedom of speech, right to assemble, due process, etc., merely on the premise that someone actually dares to disagree with them.
Far too many Lefties — including many Socialist-Democrats in Congress — also sympathize with Antifa’s masked, fascist violence and the violent rhetoric of Black Lives Matter, etc. instead of standing up and saying such tactics are fundamentally un-American.
We see that from their leaders over and over and over again, with the latest dangerous rhetoric (if not an actual call for violence) by a prominent Socialist-Democrat leader, the minority leader of the U.S. Senate.
It’s plain to see that many Socialist-Democrats have become far more than merely annoying.
And that certainly includes their fellow travelers in the agenda-driven, anti-Trump, socialist-progressive media and the hyper-partisan, Trump-hating Socialist-Democrat bureaucrats (and their sycophant RINO 'Igors') who have wormed their way permanently into DC’s putrid swamp.
Still, it was only a matter of time before they viciously turned on each other.
That’s especially true now as Establishment Socialist-Democrats (and their puppets in the leftist media) repeat their underhanded trickery from 2016 by going all-in on Sleepy Joe to make sure Sanders gets nowhere near the nomination — AGAIN.
The real question here is where they direct their hateful energy once we get to the general election — ESPECIALLY if Democrat Party screws Bernie again just like they did in 2016.
President Trump has been very strategic about this — though he may want to be careful about what he wishes for.
Supporters of Trump should be smart AND careful too.
There's real potential for a DRAMATIC schism in Democrat Party that has potential - just potential, right now - to lead to a significant electoral college victory (Think Reagan v. Carter or Mondale or even Bush I v. Dukakis) while adding to the Republicans' Senate margin AND recapturing the House.
Why? Because voters are seeing that the elite liberals — especially those in Congress — truly are Do-Nothing Democrats who care more about power than getting anything done.
A column at the Left-leaning Vox.com noted that Democrats are far from doomed, but “we really do have a lot of feasible nightmare (electoral college) scenarios," said Sean McElwee, co-founder of the progressive think tank Data for Progress.
McElwee told CNN that he believes Sanders can find a pathway to victory against Trump by attracting working-class voters across racial lines. Yet even McElwee agrees with strident Sanders critic James Carville that no candidate, Sanders included, can bet on winning mostly by transforming the nature of who votes.
“I think that all campaigns are incentivized to portray themselves as doing something unique and groundbreaking and really changing the structure of turnout,” McElwee said. “But turnout is a pretty durable attribute and it tends to correlate with intrinsic human identities: Older people tend to vote at much higher rates than younger; college-educated vote more than non-; homeowners vote more than renters. It is really, really hard using the tools available to campaigns to change that.”
So, while y'all have to constantly be on guard and aware of their potential for violence - or at least violent rhetoric - it's ALSO important to recognize it as an opportunity and its potential for dividing and conquering the opposition.
Don't respond to foolishness from the indistinguishable Bernie and Biden gangs with more foolishness in your own comments and actions.
THINK on how YOU can intelligently add more fuel to the Dem's self-immolation.
NO ONE will outwork us.
And we’re smarter than they are.
Keep America Great!
