Seems to be some difficulty amongst the 'right thinking folks' that for Trumply to get 'clobbered' he has to be emasculated to a degree even his ardent supporters will start to waver. Dems keep playing to their base and ignoring the Trumply voters they need to sway instead.
Regardless of the merits or demerits of the odious 'Pocahantas thing' Trump's base laps it up when ever he employs it. Of course the Dems on Warren's side are already convinced the charge is specious. Trump's crew ISN'T, and THEY are the ones needing dissuasion of the notion.
Warren failed, IMO, to nuke the issue early on, either via the profoundly cheap 23 and Me expediency, or acknowledging her error, regardless of how she fell into it, so as to take it off the campaign talking points list of the other side.
I'm concerned playing to their base, a seemingly obvious goof, is damaging Dem candidates when the focus should be on the swing voters and taking accurate points to the Trump camp and rubbing their noses in it, instead of vice versa. Dems don't need to be convinced, the undecided and the Trumply-ites do.
And for folks feeling Trump supporters are beyond redemption/reason, I'm certainly not seeing that around here. At the rural level, Trump placards and signs left up prominenetly after the election are gone, you'd have to really hunt to find a confederate flag anywhere, and even local watering holes are seeing an absence of Trump diehards still spouting off. The inevitability of either a self inflicted presidential disaster, or impeachment, resignation and/or declining to run for re-election is dawning on many now. Trump could claim in the run up to 2020 he has accomplished all he wanted in his first term and endorse Pence, and that would be that. Nice escape hatch, a 'peace with honor' ploy we've seen before, but would still work.
Regardless of the merits or demerits of the odious 'Pocahantas thing' Trump's base laps it up when ever he employs it. Of course the Dems on Warren's side are already convinced the charge is specious. Trump's crew ISN'T, and THEY are the ones needing dissuasion of the notion.
Warren failed, IMO, to nuke the issue early on, either via the profoundly cheap 23 and Me expediency, or acknowledging her error, regardless of how she fell into it, so as to take it off the campaign talking points list of the other side.
I'm concerned playing to their base, a seemingly obvious goof, is damaging Dem candidates when the focus should be on the swing voters and taking accurate points to the Trump camp and rubbing their noses in it, instead of vice versa. Dems don't need to be convinced, the undecided and the Trumply-ites do.
And for folks feeling Trump supporters are beyond redemption/reason, I'm certainly not seeing that around here. At the rural level, Trump placards and signs left up prominenetly after the election are gone, you'd have to really hunt to find a confederate flag anywhere, and even local watering holes are seeing an absence of Trump diehards still spouting off. The inevitability of either a self inflicted presidential disaster, or impeachment, resignation and/or declining to run for re-election is dawning on many now. Trump could claim in the run up to 2020 he has accomplished all he wanted in his first term and endorse Pence, and that would be that. Nice escape hatch, a 'peace with honor' ploy we've seen before, but would still work.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
