BTRTN: Beating Trump by Becoming Trump... Should Progressives Do Rage?
On Saturday, a N.Y.Times article reported that Democrats were debating if the "high road in politics is leading anywhere," framing the question of whether Dems need to be more like Trump to beat Trump. Born to Run the Numbers provides an answer:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/10/btrtn-beating-trump-by-becoming-trump.html
Excerpts: "The New York Times article framed the essential question: would the Dems would be better off being more like Trump? What, exactly, would that entail? One answer lies in the disturbing quote reported by filmmaker Michael Moore, who interviewed Steve Bannon as part of his research for his new film, Fahrenheit 11/9. Moore asked Bannon how he was able to engineer the defeat of a seemingly invincible Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election campaign, and his answer was as chilling as it was succinct: 'Look, its very simple we go for the head wound and your side has pillow fights. The head wound will always win over the pillow fight...'
"Publicly mimicking, mocking, and degrading a victim of sexual assault ought to be viewed as every bit as physically brutal an attack as actually pinning her down and holding a hand over her mouth. Announcing to a stadium crowd that the woman who is one hundred percent certain of the identity of her assailant is perpetrating a hoax is a good example of going for the head wound..
"Do you want to know how to do progressive rage? The true head wound to the Republican Party would be to destroy the myth of the invincible Trump among his own faithful. Regaining the House is good, but it is not head trauma. Head trauma is a devastating election disaster that forces Trumps faithful to finally peer behind the curtain. To finally see that Trump's divisiveness, deceit, and self-involvement is actually destroying their own party..."