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If a Trump weren’t a Trump…
What I am going to argue here will shock the establishment of the Democratic Party — if they take the time to read this. The party of centrism has not troubled themselves to learn anything from progressives for decades, and it will not surprise me if they continue with that attitude. The election of 2016 was not enough of an alarm for them, after all.
As Joe Biden continues to snooze through this go around, it is clear that once again, the party is hoping that the lesser of two evils argument will work for once. The polls on favorability for Joe Biden consistently say that the country is blasé about him, and while this feels like an improvement over Clinton, given how divided our country is, running a candidate who elicits yawns is poor strategy for the long term.
But the Democrats converted to Third Way liberalism under Bill Clinton, deciding that winning was everything — though in multiple elections since 1996, they have had a hard time doing even that — to the exclusion of policy in the belief that progressivism will not win in the suburbs. With that in mind, I have a nominee to offer them, someone who would be a perfect fit, if it were not for one inconvenient fact:
Ivanka Trump.
Get some lotion for your hands, Democrats, and a cough drop for your throats. All that wringing and tsking will burn if left unattended…
