Will Trump scare some sense into the Democrats?

[Zorro]

While the Democratic presidential candidates tear each other to pieces, President Trump is sending a message to the country: The rule of law means nothing to him. He will weaponize the federal government to his own political purposes, and things will only get worse if he’s reelected.

Trump has said many awful things, but here are his most chilling words yet: “I’m actually, I guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country.”

Trump as “the chief law enforcement officer” is akin to putting the Houston Astros in charge of policing cheating in Major League Baseball.

It should worry Democrats that as the dangers posed by four more years of Trump (and two more years of a supine GOP Senate) become clearer, their presidential race may be coming down to a choice between a billionaire and a democratic socialist. “?’Tis the final conflict,” as “The Internationale,” the old anthem of the left, put it. It’s hard to imagine a confrontation more likely to shatter the party.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-trump-scare-some-sense-into-the-democrats/2020/02/19/2a570514-5353-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html

[Squinch]

1. No. Most have lost sight of the goal in the infighting.

[lagomorph777]

2. A Democratic Socialist vs a Republican.

Nope, that choice doesn't worry me. Dems don't vote for Republicans. We'll pick the right person.

[Skittles]

11. it sounds like a train wreck

[lagomorph777]

14. I imagine it does, to moderates.

Not to me.

[Skittles]

15. LOL

I am NOT a "moderate"

[lagomorph777]

16. We are likely kindred spirits.

So we'll have to do everything we can to promote our values.

[Skittles]

17. #1 is GETTING RID OF TRUMP

NOTHING, er, TRUMPS that

[lagomorph777]

18. Yup.

Blue No Matter WHO!

[Scarsdale]

3. Who would be surprised if the

debate is called off when it is tRump's turn? He is no match for any of the democratic candidates, not in intelligence, or knowledge. He is a DUD, and he proves it every time he tweets or speaks. He knows it, too. That is why he disparages EVERYONE who refuses to kiss his flabby orange arse. This gig as president has been very lucrative for him, at taxpayer expense, and he does not want to lose it. Not to mention the lawsuits waiting for him when he loses the next election.

[KPN]

4. Meh. If we as a party vote for a mega-billionaire

who is a Democrat only so he can beat tRump, we deserve to be fractured in my opinion. Sorry. But Bloomberg’s no Democrat by any measure and I can’t think of a worse outcome for our country than to see a mega-billionaire essentially buy the WH using fear as the incentive. I would say we already have that but tRump’s no billionaire and never was.

The one-two punch of tRump-Bloomberg will be the absolute death knell for democracy.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Sanders isn't a Dem, either...

[KPN]

8. He's not a mega-billionaire or crook either Big difference --

which many ignore.

[Blue_Tires]

9. But he hates the Democratic party as much as any of them

so it's a wash

[Flash953]

5. Well we have some time but you're right we ought to understand what we are up against I agree

[Flash953]

6. We need to select the person who is the most electable. Also get rid of GOP senators

[Skittles]

12. what we NEED to do and what will actually happen may be two different things

sad but true

[Aristus]

10. This isn't the Monkey's Paw election.

If our primary, overriding goal is to vote Trump out, and the mechanism is 'absolutely any Democrat', I don't think a mutilated corpse is going to show up on our doorsteps if we succeed.

First things first: get rid of Trump. If we don't accomplish that, nothing else will matter.

[lees1975]

13. Do you think the billionaire is running

To make sure the Democrats stay muddled enough to lose?