2022

If history is a guide, the Democratic Party will go backwards in the 2022 midterms. The two occasions since the Civil War that the President’s Party has gained, 1934, and 2002 were times of extraordinary national crisis.

From Day One, the New Democratic President will face the same well funded, highly organised, hysterical opposition that gave birth to The Contact On America and The Tea Party Bowel Movement.

My question for the 2020 candidates is what will they do to avoid the sort of catastrophic defeat in the first midterms that crippled WJC and Obama. Will they, acknowledge, from Day One, that the Republicans in Congress are not legislative partners, but the representives of a rabid hardline base that will accept nothing less than total opposition on everything?

Our 2020 candidates don’t have to wait until Inaguaration Day to find out that the Republican legislative agenda is to make her or him a one term president. There will not be people of goodwill coming together on common sense proposals for a common purpose, but the representatives of fanatics, hell bent on killing the new presidency from Day One.

So how will our Candidates intend to govern? Will they take no prisoners, or wait for the mass graves in 2020?

“It’s not going to be hope and change. It’s going to be truth and justice.” (Kamala Harris Campaign) Well but don’t bring handcuffs to a gun fight. I’m thinking napalm and tanks.