2. It's pretty clear given his cabinet appointments, especially his secretary of labor, that his solution to competition from China is to make it possible to create Chinese-like factory conditions here--low wages, and no health and safety requirements.

Corey Lewandowski — Donald Trump's former campaign manager who remained part of his inner circle long after leaving that job — had just opened a “full service government relations and consulting firm” half a block from the White House.

Phred wrote:I don't see how any Dem can ever win another election. The fake news and propaganda machine will kick up and start trashing any candidate years before they even start to run for office.

It has already started in on Ellison.

pacino wrote:youseff - his approval rating already did go up. people approve of the fake Carrier deal. it's happening.

pacino wrote:

The worst thing anyone who stands against Trump can do is to underestimate him and the propoganda which supports him.

pacino wrote:the carrier stuff polls well for him. The Russian stuff has become partisan in the minds of the voters.

the one thing that seems to be getting through is that he's not draining the swamp. hammer him on his obvious ties to Wall st.

JFLNYC wrote:You're probably right that the more they see of him, the more people will distrust and dislike him. He'll never get nominated, let alone elected.

Nately gaped at him in undisguised befuddlement. “Now I really don’t understand what you’re saying. You talk like a madman.”

“But I live like a sane one. I was a fascist when Mussolini was on top, and I an an anti-fascist now that he has been deposed. I was fanatically pro-German when the Germans were here to protect us against the Americans, and now that the Americans are here to protect us against the Germans I am fanatically pro-American. I can assure you, my outraged young friend” – the old man’s knowing, disdainful eyes shown even more effervescently as Nately’s stuttering dismay increased

pacino wrote:i highlighted yesterday how unpopular he is. You have to do something with it. he can be as unpopular as he wants for the next two years and still gut everything we hold dear. it doesn't matter. people with time to waste were wasting time on a recount instead of going after a Louisiana senate seat. Dems need to use it to regain state control and rebuild for 2018/2020. Acting like it's just going to happen without some action is dangerous. Perhaps you're not suggesting that, but you left it out of your responses to JFLNYC.

The first thing that needs to be done is downplaying the importance of the DNC chair...simply because both of the major two candidates are perfectly fine and either would help but they don't really do much to shape ideology like seems to be the current idea. They figure out how to spread money around; whoever does that better should be elected. It's also not really our say, unless you're in a local party (my wife is now so she gets a vote!).

Wasting precious energy on BS like going back and forth on the DNC chair instead of forcing their legislators to oppose in Congress is one of the first things many Dems/liberals are doing completely wrong.