Democrats sound alarm against Trump

[brooklynite]

Politico:

PHOENIX — Leading liberals and progressive groups are turning their gaze away from the Democratic primary and toward efforts to unite the left against Donald Trump, framing him as a dangerous and unprecedented candidate who poses an existential threat to the progressive movement and the nation.

Ad campaigns are in the works. There are calls for massive voter mobilizations and screeds from leading donors circulating within liberal circles. Major labor groups are organizing their members on the ground in swing states. Within the Democratic Party apparatus, top elected leaders are beginning to speak out both collectively and individually in ways that reach beyond standard presidential-year posturing. The sense of urgency in some corners of the left is high enough that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a progressive icon who has gone to great lengths to avoid being part of the Democratic presidential conversation in 2016, hinted on Monday that she might soon get involved with the effort to stop Trump.

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Some of the party’s best-known figures are taking the lead on the piecemeal and as-yet-uncoordinated operation to stop Trump. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid was set to deliver a “major address” on the billionaire real estate mogul and progressives’ response at the liberal Center for American Progress on Thursday.

And Warren, the liberal hero who had to bat away entreaties to run for president in early 2015, told reporters she is getting more involved in the presidential election as she watches “a form of ugliness and extremism that is erupting on the right [that] not only threatens the Republicans, it threatens the entire country," according to a Boston Herald report.

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we should be alarmed ...