Paul Ryan was RIGHT (can't believe I said that): This is 100% on the voters in Montana.

[Miles Archer]

5. Grabbing women by the p*ssy and punching a reporter is cut from the same cloth

It's dominance, it's "power" (in the mind of the perpetrator), it's a total refusal to see the other person as a human being.

There is literally NO difference between Trump's "shove" yesterday and Gianforte getting elected. NONE.

And yet, Republican after Republican lined up on CNN yesterday to say that there is NO connection between the culture that Trump has created and the incident with Gianforte.

The whole point of my post is that the battle for 2018 CAN be won, but what happened yesterday should stand as proof to ALL of us that the fight is going to be one hell of a lot harder than we might choose to believe.

That could all change as soon as the red hats lose health care and every other thing that Trump is in the process of stripping way. When that happens, WE KNOW that some of them will blame Obama and the Democrats in general. That's just how they are conditioned to think by Fox News and Trump himself.

We have to fight for every other vote. We won't get 100% of the red hats. We don't NEED 100%. But we DO have to get every last voter who stayed home, voted for third party candidates, or decided to "give Trump a chance."