What Will It Take To Beat Trump? The Case for a Generic Democrat

[mystery-ak]

 What Will It Take To Beat Trump? The Case for a Generic Democrat

Democrats don’t need inspiration or revolution to win in 2020. They just need somebody bland and inoffensive. Kind of like Doug Jones.

By BILL SCHER

December 20, 2017

Democrats, still reeling from last year’s wipeout, have been embroiled in a debate over how to fix what went wrong in 2016. Should they tack left or center? Woo white working-class voters with an ambitious economic agenda or double down on the base by blitzing Donald Trump on bigotry? Prioritize health care? Inequality? Oligarchy? Democracy?

The Doug Jones upset in deep-red Alabama may have just rendered these debates irrelevant.

The Senate’s newest member did not embrace single-payer health care, free college or a $15 minimum wage. He did not swerve right on abortion and guns. In fact, he didn’t have any signature policy proposals at all.

What Jones did was take off the shelf the most pallid Democratic talking points—“quality, affordable health care,” “college must be affordable,” “I believe in science,” “discrimination cannot be tolerated”—and campaigned with a pleasant, inoffensive demeanor.

He was boring. He was safe. He was Mr. Generic Democrat. And it worked.

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[TomSea]

Though Trump won in an electoral vote landslide, looking at all of the states he won such as Florida and then, those from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, to me, it looks like a tough feat to maintain all of those in 2020. It will probably be 'it's the economy stupid' which is going very well.

[truth_seeker]

Roy Moore defeated Roy Moore. Anybody else would have walked to victory.

Moore joins Akins, Mourdoch, O'Donnell, for losing elections that could have been won.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

The way Trump's going I'd say it'll take a true Limited Govt, Constitutional Originalist Democrat, and that is a Dictionary definition of Unobtainium.

Generic Democrat? The Party's in such a frothing, seething disarray that even Pelosi and Schumer can't control them.

[cato potatoe]

Roy Moore defeated Roy Moore. Anybody else would have walked to victory.

Another 80,000 votes (0.06%) and we'd say be saying the same thing about Trump.  Hillary was the least favorable Democratic candidate in the history of polling, and he damn near lost to her.