Yeah, stir the hornets nest and motivate all those Dem's to come out and play that abstained last time. You can only take wedge politics so far..
No, but neither was Obama. And neither would Hillary have been. So it wasn't a very good choice, but one had to be made.
Academics and learned historians placed Obama's Presidency among the top twelve , I would prefer their findings anytime , compared to people pulling stuff out their asses just for the sake of it.
Would you mind pointing me to the link backing this? I'm looking for some entertainment before lunch.
The dems that are motivated and are showing up bigly are all the lefty progressives- as discussed many times. The civil war/ absolute cannibalizing chaos that will occur is in the dem primary. With the "progressives" pretty much picking up where they left off last time- just aching for a chance to even the score with that dnc/clinton crowd. This is definitely true for the national political scene but not necessarily district by district in house and senate states, because many of the candidates are in states or districts that trump won so they are free to or must run more centrist rather than on which bathroom people should be using. But on the national level the dems are being pushed or they want to go much, much more toward Camp Bernie or Son of Bernie. Which will pit them against Camp Trump or Son of Trump. Beautiful. Let the games begin.
Nothing will hold up to what is in your head though will it? There are so many propaganda wedges created by the GOP. Abe Lincoln reborn would have been shredded by the GOP in the current climate. "On January 29, 2009, the whittled-down and beaten-up Republican minority in the House of Representatives gathered for a strange celebration of defeat. The Democrats had just drubbed them at the polls, seizing the White House and a 79-seat advantage in the House. The House had then capped President Barack Obama’s first week in office by passing his $800 billion Recovery Act, a landmark emergency stimulus bill that doubled as a massive down payment on Obama’s agenda. Even though the economy was in free fall, not one House Republican had voted for the effort to revive it, prompting a wave of punditry about a failed party refusing to help clean up its own mess and dooming itself to irrelevance. But at the House GOP retreat the next day at a posh resort in the Virginia mountains, there was no woe-is-us vibe. The leadership even replayed the video of the stimulus vote—not to bemoan Obama’s overwhelming victory, but to hail the unanimous partisan resistance. The conference responded with a standing ovation. “I know all of you are pumped about the vote,” said Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House Republican whip. “We’ll have more to come!” The Republicans were pumped because they saw a path out of the political wilderness. They were convinced that even if Obama kept winning policy battles, they could win the broader messaging war simply by remaining unified and fighting him on everything. Their conference chairman, a then-obscure Indiana conservative named Mike Pence, underscored the point with a clip from Patton, showing the general rallying his troops for war against their Nazi enemy: “We’re going to kick the hell out of him all the time! We’re going to go through him like crap through a goose!” " https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/republican-party-obstructionism-victory-trump-214498 Patriots eh? Next time the pool is busy and swimmers cramping my lane, I just shit in it.