"Can we take a second to appreciate the fact that our coalition includes everyone from Bernie and

[highplainsdem]

AOC to John Kasich and Cindy McCain and the Lincoln Project?

Like holy shit are we united again against a common threat"

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[beachbumbob]

2. a united coalition of BIG TENT democrats and moderate republicans seeking to end the madness and why

we win.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Twitter reply:

Link to tweet

[BKDem]

4. But have we got Jill Stein and Susan Sarandon?

[mtnsnake]

6. Why not just keep this thread positive

[BKDem]

7. Sorry. I'm sometimes very unforgiving.

[zackymilly]

28. Yep. It's hard for me to forgive Bernie. nt

[TwilightZone]

11. We have more than enough to make up for them.

Thankfully, it appears that they will be quite irrelevant this time.

[mtnsnake]

5. Ya gotta love it!

[MaryMagdaline]

8. That's amazing!!

[AlexSFCA]

9. trump is the best uniter of dems ever

[AZ8theist]

27. "All enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC"

NEVER FORGET he and his sycophants are DOMESTIC ENEMIES

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. Yes! Haven't heard a single "wish so and so had won"!

[nuxvomica]

12. This is beyond politics now

Even The Simpsons was pretty blunt about the choice last night.

[ouija]

13. Only time

Republicans and Democrats come together is during a time of war. We just happen to be fighting a war against the POTUS.

[PatrickforO]

14. Good post. Our founders created this system to have everyone at the table,

require them to debate vigorously, negotiate, and come to compromises everyone can live with that move us forward.

The Republicans, as they exist now, forgot that in their lust for power and wealth, and have been putting party before country and people for decades. Now, that is coming home to roost.

The Republican party as it stands now is inimical to democracy. It needs to be swept away and replaced with people who actually believe in the republic, want to do their best by way of the interests of the American people, and are willing to compromise to move forward. In other words, we need to fill our government AT ALL LEVELS with people who actually want to govern us instead of making ever more massive transfers of wealth to billionaires and corporations.

Time for the Republican party to join the rest of the dinosaurs - the Whigs, Know-Nothings, Copperheads and all the others.

Time for sanity.

[Turin_C3PO]

23. In an ideal world,

one party would be centrist and consist of people such as Joe Manchin, Sinema, and others while the other party would be left wing, social Democrats consisting of people such as AOC, Warren, etc. Then we could actually have fair minded debates over issues that are important.

[AZ8theist]

29. Sinema....UGH...

I campaigned HARD for her...phone banks, money, etc...Then she voted to confirm Bolshevik Bill.
Oh well, nobody's perfect.....
(I will support her reelection regardless...)

[PatrickforO]

39. Who is Bolshevik Bill?

Is that Kavanaugh?

Because he's a bit more beer-bong than bolshie, I'd think.

[AZ8theist]

44. William Barr

[PatrickforO]

38. Exactly!

But these Republicans have gone so far right that they are embracing fascism.

Yes, as you say, this present situation, with the Never Trumper Republicans, the Lincoln Project people and others, may be their visionaries positioning themselves to be just as you say - a centrist party.

I'm pretty progressive - I was a Bernie supporter in the '16 primary, and supported Warren this time around. I love AOC, dislike the Chicago School trickle-down economics intensely and so on. I also really like Katie Porter. So many new progressives coming in to our party! Good ones. With good policy ideas.

But I readily concede that our nation also needs the centrists. Most progress happens in the middle two thirds of the Bell Curve, and outliers on either side can lead us in the wrong direction way too fast. Like Trump has.

Let us lance and drain the suppurating pustule that is the current Trump Republican party.

[BComplex]

40. Great post, Patrick.

I'm so done with any republican who can't see what's going on.

[Wounded Bear]

15. May we live in interesting times...

[Aviation91]

16. November 4, 2016

I told my niece this country has never in my lifetime (60 years) hit rock bottom and it's exactly where Donald Trump will take us and it will take Democrats, Republicans and Independent working together to pull us up out of the mess he creates!! I saw all of this coming! What really scares me is if Joe Biden wins is the time between November 3rd and January 20th. This is a person that's in charge of the nuclear football! I can't think of anything that Hitler did on a large scale that Donald Trump hasn't started on a smaller one!!! He has nothing to lose if he wins because he can't be elected for a third term! You think he wants to get rid of ROV VS WADE...He hates strong women so women's rights will be no more! In a Trump second term, a husband or boyfriend can beat up or possibly kill a woman and there will be nothing anyone can do about it! Right now with all the laws his supporters are breaking, the police aren't doing anything about it! So, as women, our very lives are at stake and not because of abortion! That's just some of what we can expect during a second term!! He is an absolute MONSTER and pure evil!!!

[LudwigPastorius]

17. Re: Lincoln Project as a member of a coalition

While they may wish Trump out, we need to remember that they are still Republicans and they still support Trump's traitorous enablers.

Let's be clear-eyed about this. Rick Wilson is a funny writer, and he and his friends make good anti-Trump ads, but that doesn't make him a good guy. Anybody who helmed attack ads equating patriot, and triple-amputee, Max Cleland with Osama bin Laden is not a decent human being.

The Lincoln Project is shot through with W. Bush-era Republicans - the same people who stole the 2000 election, failed to protect the country on 9/11, involved us in a needless war that killed hundreds of thousands, threw up deliberate legal roadblocks to gay rights, slashed taxes for the wealthy, redistributing massive sums of the nation’s wealth to the top 1%, implemented the PATRIOT Act, spied on Americans, instituted kidnapping and torture as national policy, established the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, blocked stem cell research, made climate change denial national policy, botched the response to Hurricane Katrina, deregulated the financial system so severely that we entered The Great Recession, etc., etc., etc.

Once this election is done, the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.

[RobertDevereaux]

21. Precisely!

[LisaM]

22. I've been saying we shouldn't trust them.

Sure, it's nice if they assist now, but yes, they still want low taxes and small government and a slew of other things that don't fit in with the Democratic platform. (And they can train that ammo against anyone going forward).

[scipan]

37. I don't think they support Moscow Mitch anymore.

[LudwigPastorius]

41. Thank you.

I happily stand corrected about that.

[The Magistrate]

46. I Just Hope Our Media People Are Taking Notes, Sir

"If there are such things as angels, I hope they organized along the lines of the Mafia."

[NoMoreRepugs]

18. Our opponents? Stupidity and Putin - that's a formidable FOE.

[WorkDoctor]

19. Now we need to show that the vast majority is on our side

despicable rule by the minority has gutted the nation.

[BobTheSubgenius]

20. An existential threat is an existential threat.

It leaves me flabbergasted that there is more than marginal support for this tragedy, when you consider the track record. How are people either that clueless, or that nihilistic?

[NurseJackie]

25. I know. That's something that ALWAYS troubles me... and baffles me.

How are people either that clueless, or that nihilistic?

Why do we have so many idiots? How can there be so much stupidity? (and bigotry, and hatred, and phobias, and sexism, and racism)

How can so many people NOT see that Trump is the cause of their suffering.

[AZ8theist]

32. How? 30 years of Reich wing radio 24x7x365

and Fox "news", that's how...

[calimary]

35. Yep. Hate radio and Pox Noise - giving a voice, a microphone, and long-desired "validation"

to the disgruntled who usually hide under rocks and in the shadows because what they want is so essentially Un-American. But these media outfits brought all of that out of the dark corners and allowed it to bask in the full light of day. ENCOURAGED IT to come out and bask in the full light of day. Made it okay. Made it valid and legitimate for all those in the "well, you couldn't say that on the radio if it weren't true" camp.

And you force-feed that deliberately-crafted seditious message of denial and alternate reality relentlessly day after day after day after day after day, and eventually it starts to take hold, and grow roots.

They were smart, and shrewd, and wide awake, and busy working. And we were busy napping and not taking it seriously, much less devising ANY kind of push-back.

[NurseJackie]

36. I've heard that some individuals are more "susceptible" to brainwashing...

... and believing in fantastical things. It's a genetic trait that allows them to be easily fooled and be less curious.

[AZ8theist]

43. Yes. They're called "Republicans "

[NurseJackie]

45. Ah! Found it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_gene

... I think that some individuals are more susceptible to becoming Republicans; or if raised in a GOP household/community, they're less likely to question or challenge or think for themselves.

[Mr. Ected]

24. Patriots, one and all

Putting the country's best interest ahead of party and personal preferences.

Everyone else is a fascist thug.

[ancianita]

26. YES!Democratic Party Coalitions are Unity.Unity is diverse support for common goals, not uniformity.

[awesomerwb1]

30. This guy takes good Twitter tweets almost verbatim

then tweets them as his own.

[lagomorph777]

31. Yes please. Bernie + Biden supporter here.

Though Bernie has been somewhat disappointing lately, I am very tired of some DUers who are obsessed with attacking him and dividing DU, long after the primaries have ended. I will flag any such posts, going forward.

We are all seeking the same end: the end of the Trump/McConnell/Roberts regime. Justice. Economic prosperity. Environmental protection. Decency.

[BComplex]

42. Thank you!! Bernie votes with the democrats, and eloquently supports democratic

principals. Time for hating Bernie is way past its due date.

[H2O Man]

33. Recommended.

[calimary]

34. Yes we can! And YES we ARE!!!

Reminds me of the time Reagan actually said something interesting: describing an imaginary moment when we're being invaded by UFO's and how THAT would serve to unite the whole world around one mission, and one cause.

trump certainly qualifies as an existential threat. Because that's exactly what he is.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

47. Which is another sign that if the Biden-Harris team doesn't win

we need to report a theft.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

48. Everyone who votes against Trump is a genuine, bonafide, certifiable patriot.

That said, long experience has shown me that any time Republicans say that they are going to do something good for human beings, and for for the country, they don't.

So, for me, the coalition includes everyone who actually votes against Trump, not those who just say they will because it is somehow in their own self interest, and then go ahead and vote for Trump.

Show me the money.

Sorry to be so cynical, but Republicans have done nothing but cause harm to me, and my country, directly and indirectly, over the course of my entire lifetime.