Democrats Mull How to Confront Trump

[Wingnut]

PHOENIX — As the candidates for chairman of the Democratic National Committee gathered here for a forum on Saturday, they wrestled with a vexing question: how to confront the asymmetrical political warfare of President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Be strategic, the candidates advised, and do not take him up on every feud.

“If you try to go tweet-to-tweet with him, more often than not you’re not going to succeed,” said Thomas E. Perez, the secretary of labor, warning about going to “a knife fight with a spoon.”

Sally Boynton Brown, the executive director of the Idaho Democratic Party, invoked what she called “Psychology 101” for narcissists. Every response to Mr. Trump’s provocations, she warned, risks helping him “grow more powerful.”

And Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., said simply, “We’re going to need to be smarter than just talking about how bad he is.”

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Yet just as the would-be leaders of the committee, who were assembled for the first of four officially sanctioned candidate forums, preached prudence and calculation in the Trump era, others in the party were responding with fury to the president-elect’s latest Twitter outburst.

Mr. Trump’s ridicule of Representative John Lewis of Georgia as being “all talk” set off outrage among Democrats, with many defending their colleague, some vowing to join him in boycotting the presidential inauguration, and most determined to make Mr. Trump pay a price for taking on a giant of the civil rights movement. Mr. Lewis had said a day before that Mr. Trump was not a “legitimate president.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/us/politics/democrats-donald-trump.html

[txradioguy]

Here's a novel idea...come at him like a rational adult instead of acting like a drunk disrespectful teenager.

[Oceander]

Here's a novel idea...come at him like a rational adult instead of acting like a drunk disrespectful teenager.

Now you're just insulting drunk disrespectful teenagers!

[dfwgator]

Here's a novel idea...come at him like a rational adult instead of acting like a drunk disrespectful teenager.

But then they wouldn't be Democrats.

[bilo]

The Rats are going to lose their battle with Trump. They can't attack him based on reason and policy because their ideology is based in emotion and defies reason. They can't attack him based on his lack of character because they have none and he fights back.

Trump has transformed political discourse and media power with Twitter. It's not sophisticated, but it goes right out to everyone who wants to see it and it is not filtered.

[txradioguy]

The Rats are going to lose their battle with Trump. They can't attack him based on reason and policy because their ideology is based in emotion and defies reason. They can't attack him based on his lack of character because they have none and he fights back.

Trump has transformed political discourse and media power with Twitter. It's not sophisticated, but it goes right out to everyone who wants to see it and it is not filtered.

His Twitter posts do nothing but appeal to a certain specific and limited crowd of unsophisticated bully's who thrive on crass behavior and it is fodder for the media to portray him as an out of control Orange Buffoon. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

His Twitter posts do nothing but appeal to a certain specific and limited crowd of unsophisticated bully's

20 million is a rather large "specific and limited" crowd.   

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

[txradioguy]

20 million is a rather large "specific and limited" crowd.   

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

And how many of those are bots...hired posters or fake sock puppet accounts? Or members of the media waiting g for him to say the next dumb thing?

Yeah that's what I thought.

[bilo]

His Twitter posts do nothing but appeal to a certain specific and limited crowd of unsophisticated bully's who thrive on crass behavior and it is fodder for the media to portray him as an out of control Orange Buffoon.

What you're missing is his twitter posts dictate what the media covers that day, or week. Also, they counter the non stop attacks on him and his supporters love it. I haven't forgotten how Bush took the high road and didn't respond to all the lies told about him in the media and by the Rats. In no time at all those lies became "facts".

[txradioguy]

What you're missing is his twitter posts dictate what the media covers that day, or week. Also, they counter the non stop attacks on him and his supporters love it. I haven't forgotten how Bush took the high road and didn't respond to all the lies told about him in the media and by the Rats. In no time at all those lies became "facts".

You are severely miscalculating the media and who is dictating what to whom.