Dems ready to move past Michelle Obama's 'go high' message

[babylonsister]

Dems ready to move past Michelle Obama’s ‘go high’ message
By Amie Parnes and Mike Lillis - 08/14/18 06:00 AM EDT


Democrats are embracing Michael Avenatti’s call for the party to get more aggressive in the Trump era and hit back harder than the GOP when responding to attacks.

Avenatti, the Stormy Daniels attorney now considering a White House run, said at an event in Iowa on Friday that “when they go low, I say hit back harder.”

It was a nod to former first lady Michelle Obama’s “when they go low, we go high” mantra — a more hopeful, optimistic slogan that an increasing number of Democrats say belongs in the trash can for the time being.

Avenatti, said former Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.), is “tapping into a Democratic rage that Trump must be defeated and it doesn’t matter how.”

“They think the low blow beat the high ground in 2016,” Israel said, adding that Trump has created “an electorate that is angrier, nastier and more desperate.”

That likely means more attacks and a pugnacious 2020 primary season, say Democrats.

“We have no other choice,” said one political strategist who has been having preliminary conversations with candidates about running for the presidency. “You can’t kill him with kindness. That doesn’t work. So you have to go the other way.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/401657-dems-ditch-when-they-go-low-we-go-high-for-hit-back-harder

[ck4829]

1. When you are fighting today's Republican Party, you are automatically going high

Remember Alabama? These are the same people who almost voted in a sex offender with visions of fascism and glorified the 1850s "even though there was a little bit of slavery, just a little bit" just because the 'other guy' is a Democrat.

As long as your tactics are legal, I don't think there is any way to actually go lower than today's Republicans and right wing. That's just how bad the alt-right, Putinist, and white nationalist loving right wing has become.

[tman]

2. Maybe they should use Barack's message..

That "we should always bring a gun to a knife fight".