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In reply to the discussion: If you are surprised that Trump won Nevada [View all]islandmkl
(5,275 posts)they think it is 'politics as usual' and the most aggressive, position-changing, pandering to the sleeping masses, keep-things-the-same-while-promoting-change bullshit positions, etc. is the way to address the current (and usually non-attentive) electorate...
well, the electorate, on all sides, except the establishment defenders, are having none of it...
and Trump, with a recent history of making 13 millions Americans tune in to him weekly, knows how to play THAT game...
and the career politicians are stuck in 2000 give or take a few years...and neither the Dems nor Repubs can adjust their game plans fast enough to counter his every move, let alone the ones he throws at them on top of the ones they haven't figured out how to react to...
and we Dems better get ready...because he ain't nothing good...but he is real...
and we have to counter that...