Democrats want to get Trump out of the White House, but what they’re doing right now is guaranteeing him another term. In order to win, the Democrats need to present a unified front with a nominee that can win over both sides of the aisle. Trying to turn American socialist while trying to get a narcissistic idiot out of the White House is not their smartest move.
Many presidential candidates such as Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders are taking an approach of prioritizing Medicare-for-All & essentially socialist ideals. These programs aren’t necessarily bad ideas, but their timing is absolutely terrible. Most people who vote aren’t one side or the other, but rather they switch back and forth between who to vote for based on what they propose. A large number of voters who voted for Obama ended up voting for Trump in 2016. This goes to show that it matters who the Democrats nominate. All throughout the 2016 campaigns, people thought Trump was a joke and that there was no way he would ever be elected. Then, the Democrats chose Clinton as their candidate. The American people had to make a choice: the businessman who promises to protect the country & “make america great again” & or the woman who has an extremely sketchy background as Secretary of State & is the wife of an impeached president.
The Democrats need to be smart. If they want to get Trump out, they need to get the moderates & republicans on their side. Nominating Bernie Sanders will not do that – it will guarantee Trump another term. Nominating a centrist and true democratic candidate such as Micheal Bloomberg, Andrew Yang, Amy Klobachur, or really any democrat that isn’t a socialist, will set them up for success. The Democrats are assuming that everyone will vote blue because Trump has “gone crazy”, which is not the case. Who the DNC nominates will determine the outcome of the election, and if they make the wrong choice, it’s all over. Catering to both sides will show a unified Democratic front, providing a rational solution to Trump’s presidency.
Andrew Yang often talks about how we should be looking not left, not right, but forward, and I think he’s got the right idea. Anytime we’re talking about Trump and not about the country’s problems, he’s winning. We need to focus on fixing the issues that got our country to the point where Donald Trump became president, not on what stupid comment the president tweeted 5 minutes ago.
Picking the S*** Out of Politics 