This is what happens when your whole party is conflict averse PMCs, they cannot conceive of facing the fire or campaigning onward like nothing's happened, because they back down at the first sight of the right's finger-wagging and bad faith condemnations. They only know how to slink away from a barking dog, and can't conceive of barking back so loudly that the other dog is cowed.
It's also why I think it was a mistake for Dems since Clinton to basically jettison any tone of gruffness or indelicacy from their party to triangulate against Trump. The older, mostly-white "based libs" like Ron Perlman who attacked Trump from a place of righteous-if-somewhat-problematic rage were the best answer to people like Trump.
There are lots of people who aren't polished enough to graduate to the effete heights of the party who have the earned wisdom and life experience that could deal with a fancy lad like Trump. Get Sean O'Gaelicpotato or whatever his name is, that union boss, to publicly bully him and make Trump look like a wimp.
The problem is the Democrats, just like the Republicans before the MAGA era, are a party of urbane elites. For every Marjorie Taylor Greene or former child killing Navy SEAL with a R next to their name there's some geriatric Ivy Leaguer who frets over which pair of cufflinks to wear to brunch voted in by the same MAGA hogs because they profess to hate "The Genders" and pledge to prosecute people who burn the flag.
This is what happens when your whole party is conflict averse PMCs, they cannot conceive of facing the fire or campaigning onward like nothing's happened, because they back down at the first sight of the right's finger-wagging and bad faith condemnations. They only know how to slink away from a barking dog, and can't conceive of barking back so loudly that the other dog is cowed.
It's also why I think it was a mistake for Dems since Clinton to basically jettison any tone of gruffness or indelicacy from their party to triangulate against Trump. The older, mostly-white "based libs" like Ron Perlman who attacked Trump from a place of righteous-if-somewhat-problematic rage were the best answer to people like Trump.
There are lots of people who aren't polished enough to graduate to the effete heights of the party who have the earned wisdom and life experience that could deal with a fancy lad like Trump. Get Sean O'Gaelicpotato or whatever his name is, that union boss, to publicly bully him and make Trump look like a wimp.
The problem is the Democrats, just like the Republicans before the MAGA era, are a party of urbane elites. For every Marjorie Taylor Greene or former child killing Navy SEAL with a R next to their name there's some geriatric Ivy Leaguer who frets over which pair of cufflinks to wear to brunch voted in by the same MAGA hogs because they profess to hate "The Genders" and pledge to prosecute people who burn the flag.