Posted on 04/06/2022 5:20:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is a consensus that the Democratic Party is in trouble with midterm elections seven months away. The polls say it, the issues say it and history says it: The coming election is the type of election that the party in power loses big. And to some Democrats, only one man can save the party from disaster: Donald Trump.
Of course, many Democrats have tried to make Trump the issue for the last six years. But after last November's Virginia governor election -- in which the Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe, tried very hard to make about Trump, only to lose to Republican Glenn Youngkin -- it was thought that Democrats might be getting over their Trump-mania, at least when the former president is not on the ballot himself.
But no. A new story in Politico bears the headline: "Dems have an opening for a midterm villain. Donald Trump, you're hired!" The article reports that many Democrats, with the issues not going their way and with their own base suffering from a lack of enthusiasm, believe that Trump, along with a few fringe GOP members of the House, "are giving Democrats just the political foil they've been looking for as virtually everything else has gone the Republicans' way."
"We still have a villain," Democratic Rep. Scott Peters told Politico. "We'll have to remind people of what that was like." That means focusing the midterm congressional campaigns on Trump, and also focusing on some other figures -- GOP Reps. Madison Cawthorn, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz -- whom Democrats would like to make the faces of the Republican Party. "I mean, do you want to hand the keys to the government to these folks?" another Democrat, Rep. Dan Kildee, asked Politico. "They're scary. They're nuts."
As for Trump himself, many Democrats have been heartened by a recent ruling in a civil case in which a U.S. District Court judge in California, David Carter, declared that Trump had "likely committed" crimes in the Jan. 6 matter. "The illegality of the plan was obvious," Carter wrote, referring to Trump's desire to have then-Vice President Mike Pence rule out some electoral votes when Congress met to certify the 2020 election results.
It is impossible to overstate the excitement with which some Democrats met Judge Carter's ruling. It turbocharged their already strong desire to see the former president charged with a crime, any crime -- Democrats are not particular. The desire is so strong that people around resident Joe Biden are leaking the news that Biden would like to see Trump charged. "As recently as late last year, Mr. Biden confided to his inner circle that he believed former President Donald J. Trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, according to two people familiar with his comments," The New York Times reported over the weekend. The point of the leak is to put pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to OK some sort of charge against Trump.
One problem with the plan is that Judge Carter's ruling was actually kind of flimsy. Justice Department prosecutors, who have to take into consideration the possibility of losing any case they might bring, will have to weigh that. The second problem is that the Democratic pressure campaign is entirely political -- remember that the Democrats' reason for forming the Jan. 6 committee and getting its findings out in the next few months is to enhance Democratic chances in the midterms. And the third problem is having the Justice Department bring a political case against Trump under pressure from Democratic activists is the kind of thing that might fire up Republican voters. It all comes with a pretty high possibility of backfiring.
And then there are the actual issues. Inflation, inflation, inflation -- the dramatic increase in the cost of living in the last year, which appears set to continue the rest of this year, is clearly the most important issue in the midterms. Biden and his party can try to call it "Putin's price hike," but the reality is that voters are most likely going to blame the party in control of Congress. Then there are other issues, like the greater economy, crime and border security, all of which do not look good for Democrats. And then there is the so-called "generic ballot," in which Republicans have the lead in the question of which party voters will support for their own representatives in the House.
So now, Democrats propose to make the midterms about Trump. After the Virginia election, a disappointed Democratic official in the state said, "I think we spend entirely too much time talking about Donald Trump and not articulating not only our vision for the future but spending time genuinely connecting with people and with their needs."
A lot of Democrats were thinking that way just a few months ago. Now their anti-Trump instinct has kicked in again -- they don't seem to be able to control it -- and they again think that if they just hit Trump hard enough, if they just talk about him long enough, if they just make him the major focus of their campaigns, they can ride the Trump train to victory. We'll see.
Why not? The Republicans will be.
The Rat mentality is total brainwashed. I happened to talk to a guy yesterday who was a liberal. And I mentioned that Byedone was causing the high gas prices and Trump was doing a good job before leaving. This morons response was that Trump had us in war and that Afghanistan was his fault. At that point there was no reason to talk any further. They’re all stoopid.
Low prices, full employment, stable foreign policy ... we certainly don't want to go back to that!
“”I mean, do you want to hand the keys to the government to these folks?” another Democrat, Rep. Dan Kildee, asked Politico. “They’re scary. They’re nuts.””
And you’re running Sandy Cortez, lhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush? They’re a horror show.
What they actually meant is still.
That is why someone besides Trump needs to step up. Trump is a lightning rod, unjustly so. He is also getting pretty old. I am very fond of Trump; but, aware that he does bring baggage.
Dems plan: Make America scared again.
Why not? Stupid to even doubt they would.
Those that made the last election, the corrupt one, about DJTrump instead of policies are fundamentally stupid — speaking to stupid people. Stupid cannot be fixed.
The GOP won’t do anything. It’s only to get Pelosi and the Democrats removed from the majority.
Why not? The Republicans will be.
If the 2020 election were held today, Trump would beat Biden in a landslide.
They think Trump is unpopular because he's unpopular on Twitter and in the swamp.
That is not in the real world.
Yes the stupid will repeat their idiocy. But there’s GOT to be a sizeable percentage that will have rethought their Biden votes. Trump should win by an even wider margin.
Question is will it be enough to prevent another Steal.
I can’t think of another candidate ready to step up, and frankly, I’ll give Trump another vote just to hear their howls on election day.
He deserves the shot - this time it’s personal.
Oh, PLEASE throw us all into THAT briar patch. With the majority of Americans looking upon the Trump years as far more prosperous than the current debacle that is the Biden regime, go for it, dems.
The GOP needs to model 2024 on the successful defense against fraud in Virginia's 2021 election. We had multitudes of watchers in EVERY county, and especially in the liberal hotbed locations of Loudoun and Fairfax Counties, and Richmond and Arlington Cities and in Hampton Roads, it can be done. The libs even tacitly admitted they were denied cheating opportunities. Election theft can be defeated, but it takes planning, work and expenditures.
Creating hollow paragraphs to make a buck
The democrats are so fractured they can’t agree on anything much less “making it about Trump”
The Democrat choice is making it about survival
‘This time it’s personal.’
To heck with Make America Great Again. This is his ‘24 campaign slogan.
While I’m still banned on Craigslist politics (for winning too many arguments and responded to their insults with my own) I still go to San Fran site to read.
Now while to be sure there are wacky extremists on CL I have noticed they do give somewhat of an indicator of the mood of Democrats, especially leftist ones.
I can assure you TDS is still on in full force. They rag and rant about him daily, many times.
How would that happen?…is there a shortage of printing presses, paper, ink, drop boxes, dead people???
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