Can Someone Explain “The Left” to Me?
In order to win the mid terms, Democrats don’t need to convince Democrats to vote for them, they need to convince the Independents. These would be the same Independent voters that in a national backlash against “the left” voted Donald Trump into the White House. Do the Democrats honestly believe that their vitriolic outrage over an unsubstantiated, 35 year old accusation, of a teenage boy, in the hormone raging midst of puberty, acting badly, really the best way to convince those same Independents that theirs is the better party?
Keep in mind that one of Trump’s very vocal campaign platforms was nominating a Supreme Court that could overturn Roe... and he won! And he got a significant number of women voters on that platform.
But even if we give the Dems the benefit of the doubt, and say that Kavanaugh is guilty of all Dr. Ford says he is. Kavanaugh’s record of empowering and advancing women since then is both exemplary and undisputed. Would this not the model of a man learning from his terrible mistake and spending the rest of his life working to correct it? Do the Democrats not recognize that it is very likely reasonably minded voters will see it exactly that way?
And here is what truly blows my mind; the Democrats have EVERYTHING to lose here. I think that Trump has very already won a second term. The DNC still doesn’t have either a strong national candidate, or clear message other than “we hate Trump”, and that campaign tactic was a colossal fuck up the last time they tried it. Probably their most qualified candidate is Elizabeth Warren, and I have to ask, Why on Earth would Elizabeth Warren run? Given the both catastrophic and utterly humiliating defeat of Hilary Clinton in an election that she was all but guaranteed she would win, why would Warren risk everything she has worked for all of her life, billions of dollars, and complete humiliation on running against Donald Trump? She would have no more guarantee of victory than Hillary did, and her defeat would be even more disgraceful. Why would she risk that when she could just sit back for four more years and run against Mike Pence? Anybody the DNC puts up in 2020 has got be a sacrificial lamb.
So why wouldn’t the DNC play the “Look how reasonable we are Americans” card with a Justice that is so CLEARLY qualified, and who has a record of supporting women? It could ONLY help them in the mid terms! If the Dems lose the mid terms, and Trump wins in 2020, then he will end up seating another conservative Justice, and liberalism will be all but dead in this country for the next 40 years!
Can somebody explain to me why the Left doesn’t see that?












