So how does Hillary beat Trump?

[pampango]

39. By offering voters a choice. We can't beat him at demagoguery and will lose if we try.

Trump wants to isolate us from the world with walls, tariffs, travel bans and ripping up international agreements. If Americans want a RW demagogue who will do that, they know whom to vote for and there is not much we can do about it. (Going Trump-lite is a recipe for disaster.)

If we cannot offer a clear view of why the US should rein in our own 1% and engage constructively with the rest of the world (95% of people are not American) like Canada, Sweden and a host of other progressive countries do, then voters will choose the RW demagogue who offers scapegoats rather than solutions.

Then we will endure the pro-1%, isolationist aftermath like we did in the 1920's until a new FDR (or something altogether worse) comes along.