{"id":29316,"date":"2017-09-03T13:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29316"},"modified":"2017-09-03T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:09:40","slug":"the-next-anti-fuhrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/03\/the-next-anti-fuhrer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Anti-Fuhrer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems awfully early for Campaign 2020 to begin, but apparently several members of the Democratic Party are already jockeying for pole position in the race for the Democratic Nomination.  It’s critically important that Democrats have a nominee with a solid progressive agenda, because we cannot afford another situation in which personal purity mavens dupe so many progressive voters into voting for a can’t-win third party nominee, instead of a less progressive Democrat.  Look how Putin’s other puppet, Jill Stein, handed the election to Trump.  We can’t afford to let the pie-in-the-sky set hand the election to another monster like ___________ (insert any Republican here).<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0903Liz\"<\/p>\n

Aides to Senator Kamala Harris of California say that her fund-raisers in Martha\u2019s Vineyard and the Hamptons this summer have been all about helping Democrats in 2018. Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s allies say his new political group is building an email list so he can communicate directly with his supporters about the future of the party and the country. And Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio says he has been traveling to Iowa and New Hampshire in part because \u201cI like being out around the country<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the packed fund-raising calendars, brisk political spending and trips to early primary states suggest that in fact a shadow campaign for the party\u2019s 2020 presidential nomination is already well underway.<\/p>\n

In interviews, more than three dozen leading Democratic donors, fund-raisers and operatives agreed that it was the earliest start they had ever seen to the jockeying that typically precedes the official kickoff to the campaign for the party\u2019s presidential nomination. It is a reflection of the deep antipathy toward President Trump among Democrats, and the widespread belief that the right candidate could defeat him, but also of the likelihood that the contest for the nomination could be the longest, most crowded and most expensive in history…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Of the candidates mentioned, my favorite is Kamala Harris, but if I could choose the Democratic nominee, it would be Elizabeth Warren.  Nevertheless…<\/font><\/p>\n

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!<\/font><\/h1>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems awfully early for Campaign 2020 to begin, but apparently several members of the Democratic Party are already jockeying for pole position in the race for the Democratic Nomination.  It’s critically important that Democrats have a nominee with a solid progressive agenda, because we cannot afford another situation in which personal purity mavens dupe […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}