Monday, February 6, 2017

Unhinged foes boost Trump, Chelsea’s candidacy & other notable commentary

http://nypost.com ^ | 02/06/2017 | editorial board 

“The fires of protest could burn so brightly that they alienate moderate voters and threaten any Democrats who decline to throw gasoline on the fire.” Some Dems are warning of anti-Trump overkill and the party’s “relentless choice of a negative, obstructionist tone.” But “the confusion is only making it more difficult for Democrats to think strategically.” So “practical considerations are being pushed aside in the rush to portray Donald Trump as some kind of ‘fascist in chief. But “if Democrats believe that this kind of hyper-partisan opposition will carry the day or appeal to moderates,” says Fund, “good luck with that.”
Michael Sainato at the Observer cites reports Chelsea Clinton may seek a congressional seat and warns if she wins, it “would be a disaster for the Democratic Party.” Because “another Clinton in public office would broaden the party’s disconnect with working and middle class voters” and “do little to convey a message of change and progression.” Indeed, he suggests, noting her recent series of anti-Trump tweets, “if the best Democrats can come up with for the ‘resistance’ against Donald Trump is sensationalizing tweets from establishment elites as legitimate opposition, the Party is worse off than anyone understands.” Let her run and lose, he says: That would teach “a lesson the Democratic establishment has continuously failed to learn.”
Contrary to what you may have read or heard, notes Washington Post Deputy Editorial Page Editor Jackson Diehl, Trump did not “downgrade the participation of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the deliberations of the National Security Council.” Yet these days, “even when the White House does something ordinary, it may be portrayed as radical and dangerous, and even when it tells the truth, it is not believed.”
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