David Corn. 9700 "likes," 2800 retweets of his response to the WSJ.

[Miles Archer]

WSJ Editorial Page
@WSJopinion · Jun 28

Democrats march in lockstep with the left. What are they offering voters who backed Trump in 2016? (link: https://on.wsj.com/2IVQQlJ) on.wsj.com/2IVQQlJ

David Corn
@DavidCornDC

A candidate who is not a narcissistic, lying, demagogic, authoritarian, bigoted, misogynistic sociopath who has boasted of committing sexual assault and been credibly accused of rape—and who aided and abetted a foreign adversary’s attack on the United States. That’s all.

Link to tweet

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for truth...nt

[malaise]

4. That any editorial board can post this shit should shock everyone

Every editorial board should be repeating David's tweet and saying anyone but the king of Cons

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Ed board of WSJ particularly hard right for 0.1 pcent, unlike staff who report pretty straight. . nt

[malaise]

13. Hard right should not mean condoning this vile scumbag

They don't give a damn if this criminal , racist and accused rapist remains in charge as long as they get their tax breaks.

[sharedvalues]

31. And the Murdoch family does this intentionally.

Rupert Murdoch bought the WSJ so he could use it to lie to Americans to get them to support tax breaks for...Rupert Murdoch

[sharedvalues]

30. WSJ is a propaganda tool of Rupert Murdoch

The WSJ Ed page lies every day to advance the pro-billionaire agenda

[malaise]

37. Yep

Fugg ém!

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

right fucking now

[TheBlackAdder]

32. Do you believe this "lock step" shit? It's more RW projection. Watching the Dem Debates invalidates!

[malaise]

33. No I don't believe that lock step shit

We can stay left and still explain the issue with and without labels. Don't let the right use words to label Dems - explain issues. Student debt enriches banks. That is a fact. People are so busy paying debt they can't buy homes which enrich landlords and on and on and on.

[TheBlackAdder]

34. Yep. The goal of oligarchs is to keep people working so much, they won't challenge the system.

[lunatica]

41. Student debt

Ties generations up in slavery to those debts. Students are forced to take low income jobs in corporations because corporations no longer need to pay high salaries to attract management level workers. Employees can no longer choose better salaries because their student debt is so massive that they can’t take their time shopping for better paying jobs, which are shrinking because of the unfair competition of other student loan workers. They can easily be replaced by hundreds of qualified people who will take the less desirable jobs just to make their loan payments.

It’s a vicious cycle of downward spiraling employment of highly qualified personnel.

[malaise]

42. Well let me tell you what's coming next

There will be o permanent jobs - so no pensions, health care benefits, no vacations, no benefits for children.
Kill unions and then offer contracts. Replace all who are old and approaching pension age and new workers will get none of the benefits we had or have.

Never forget we were the guinea pigs for this neo-liberal model.

[lunatica]

45. I'm relieved that I'm out of the employment rat race

It was pretty bad in the last few decades but now it’s so much worse for the young people to be saddled with so much debt before they even get started.

[malaise]

51. We had it easy

I too am glad my work life is over

[Funtatlaguy]

3. On the mark! 👏

[infinite_wisdom]

5. The WSJ argument is nonsense

There is far more variability in policy positions amongst the Democrats than there is amongst the Republicans.

The Rs are marching in lock step behind Donald Trump straight into quasi Fascism, white nationalism, whatever you want to call it.

Going after Trump voters should not be the primary focus. Most of the effort should be in expanding the base and keeping them fired up.

Most Trump voters are lost causes. If you are OK with this administration, its policies, rhetoric and behavior then you are an irredeemable asshole anyway. Don’t want those votes.

[Perseus]

7. Who owns the WSJ? the same guy who owns Fox

Enough said.

[Kid Berwyn]

50. The Alien

The late, great Mike Royko’s appellation for Rupert Murdoch.

https://www.csmonitor.com/1984/0118/011848.html

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. Exactly, and one would think....

that a paper that's pumped up to be one of America's "smartest" would have enough sense to simply go on line and read the policy positions of the candidates.

Never been a fan of WSJ and especially not after Murdoch gained control.....

[Cosmocat]

15. Its fucking tiresome

Having the media relentlessly chastizing democrats for not "reaching out" to people who display complete animous in their vote.

They know full well what they vote for, and it stands diametrically opposed to what we stand for.

Side, fucking right there is INFINITELY more variability in the D party that the braindead, servile party of sheep.

[LiberalLovinLug]

43. Yes. Exactly

We have infighting even here in DU ffs. Its a big tent in the Democratic party. The more conservative Dems fret about the influx of more radical "Democratic socialists" and the left wing of the party is frustrated with the slow pace of movement from the top. But at least we can have a civilized debate (usually).

The GOP has fractured and insisted that all walk in lockstep with Trump or they are ostracized. Never Trumpers are not welcome back. There is no room for dissension in that party whatsoever. They have to kiss Trumps ring or they are out.

Just the idea they' d use that term to describe Democrats, conjuring images of goose-stepping soldiers in the old USSR.

"What are they offering voters"? Really? You haven't been hearing of Medicare for All, or fighting Climate Change, NOT separating families into cages? A host of other issues Democrats have been putting out there.

[uponit7771]

49. Yep more bothsidesism

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Those that deny even to themselves & over-compensate are the most screwed up. . . . nt

[dchill]

18. You have crystallized my thoughts exactly.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. A.c.t.u.a.l.l.y, Democrats are offering a lot to appeal to tRump voters if they'd think about it.

Trump voters are bamboozled by labels like the "left", which is why the editorial board of the WSJ uses such labels.

Emphasize the positives of proposals getting hashed out by the Democrats:

* Forgiveness of student debt. Many Trump voters have student debt or children facing such debt.

* Medicare for all. Many tRump voters don't/didn't have insurance or are chained to jobs by needed insurance benefits.

* Tax the rich. Most tRump voters never saw a tangible benefit from the tax heist TrumpubliCons pulled off.

Never deny the label if you are on the left but no need to raise it either. Talk up the accomplishments and especially the platforms of your favorite candidates with tRump voters who might listen or politely pretend to listen, even if rare. Appeal to their self-interests as the way in to make them think a bit.

tRump likes to create distractions so that both sides don't think too much. Make his voters think.

[malaise]

20. +1,000

Tear down the labels with concrete examples - student debt is a great example

[Poiuyt]

35. Great post!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

10. K n R for visibility.

[dlk]

14. This WJS Tweet Offers More Damning Evidence How the Murdochs have Seriously Damaged Our Country

How any credible news source could tweet such ignorant propaganda supporting someone as crooked, incompetent and disgusting as Trump says it all. Thank you, David Corn, for calling them out.

[Pepsidog]

16. Exactly. Murdochs have helped destroy this country. Why hasn't this been said more often?

[calimary]

17. David Corn - for the WIN.

What? Like that’s something bad or disgusting or non-sexist? Somebody who doesn’t rape and brag about it? Somebody who isn’t a congenital pathological liar? Like that’s somehow a bad thing? Somebody who is so vile, vulgar, and untrustworthy that even you wouldn’t behave that way and certainly wouldn’t want your children to follow that example?

Then what does that say about YOU, WSJ Editorial Board???

Dammit, I just keep on getting dragged back to that same damn question. WHAT does that say about those who cling to him and somehow manage to justify supporting him?

[PatSeg]

19. It is primary season

and time for the media to go after Democrats again, while ignoring the ticking time bomb in our White House.

[lunatica]

44. And they're off to the horse races for the next year and a half!

It’s already getting ugly with Kamala Harris birtherism. They’re just getting started.

[PatSeg]

56. And as a result,

I am watching far less cable news than before, which I'm sure was not their objective. It is exhausting and redundant.

[FailureToCommunicate]

21. Yup! Every other petty difference among the Dems is just chaff.

[rocktivity]

22. P.S. More people voted AGAINST Trump than FOR him

remember?

[RVN VET71]

23. Yes, the Democratic will offer a human to a terrible, inhuman man.

But Trump's popularity is deeply ingrained and his loyalists will remain loyal even if their lives are undermined by his erratic policies.

The one bright light on the horizon: we outnumber them and if we do, in fact, turn out to vote en masse, in such numbers that not even Trump's awful, criminal administration along with its equally foul Republican statehouses will be able to interfere with and otherwise massage the vote in their favor -- we can drive Trump and all of his minions out of D.C. and the statehouses forever.

But the 2020 voter turnout has to be tremendous, historic. Anyone who is not for Trump must vote for whoever the Democrats put out there. Anyone who stays home does a disservice to the rule of law, the constitution, and our hope for the future.

We, the people, must retake the WH, keep and increase control of the House of Representatives, and take back the Senate.

[Achilleaze]

24. WSJ sounds super stupid

they may have sucked up too many degenerate republican value$ over the years.

WSJ is totally lost.

[KG]

25. !

'lockstep' 'the left'

[Captain Zero]

26. Corn could have added

The Democrats don't think the free press, like the WSJ, is an enemy of the people, the way the Trump Regime thinks they are.

[FakeNoose]

27. If I had a subscription to WSJ, I would cancel it after that editorial

... but, why would I ever give any money or credence to that hot mess anyway?

[barbtries]

28. correction.

11,000 likes and 3,300 rts.

includes me now

[onetexan]

29. Epic!

[oasis]

36. Zing!!!

[MarcA]

38. "Democrats march in lockstep with the left" is a false premise. n/t

[Progressive Jones]

54. A false premise on a couple of levels. nt

[Paladin]

39. Kicked. (nt)

[BigmanPigman]

40. You forgot "sadistic" David.

[Honeycombe8]

46. True, but to beat an incumbent, we need more than "I'm not him." That doesn't work. nt

[Takket]

47. I hope we aren't offering the deplorables ANYTHING

Fuck every last one of those people. Their “wants” are what are destroying the country.

[onecaliberal]

48. K&R

[The Wizard]

52. WSJ (AKA)

birdcage liner.

[turbinetree]

53. And David Corn and the Staff at MotherJones are more credible than the right wing rag called the WSJ

Thank You David Corn and the Staff at Mother Jones,which I subscribe to...................

[pansypoo53219]

55. he forgot adult instead of a baby man.