For God’s sake, I beg you—don’t drive Trump out!
Encourage him (right now, when he’s on the ropes, and in danger of being driven out by Republicans) —
He’s the best thing that’s happened to Democrats and Progressives in generations! Take the money (the fifteen dollars) you’d love to give to Bernie and the Bros— and give it to Trump! Phone it in, take a robocall (if you happen to get one) and SUPPORT THAT CRAZY RACIST MOTHERFUCKER!
KEEP HIM IN THE RACE, AS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE!
He will drag the conservatives DOWN, If he is the nominee!
The BEST strategy progressive America could pursue , has always been: to drive American conservatism into EXTINCTION. Out of Congress, out of governorships. Into the extreme margins of opinion, out at the edges, back into the country clubs and back into the talk radio, John Birch Society-style crank constituencies where it belongs . Trump has stolen that right wing away from the Republican establishment, stolen it away from Fox, stolen it away from the Tea Party.
There is a chance here, and it cannot be missed — except to our regret. Except to the regret of progressives, the regret of people who really want single payer, who really want a just wage and a New Deal for American workers, for American working families, for working-for-a-living Americans living in ridiculous debt to maintain an illusion of middle class life. For people who want to get out of that trap, and move forward: right now, this week, Trump’s survival as the GOP nominee — is an imperative, a godsend.
He is destroying conservatism. He is a racist, homophobic, Howard Stern politics godsend to progressive politics.
Don’t let them turn it around, don’t let conservatives WIN again; don’t let them dump Trump to distance themselves from the Trump hate that IS the base of the GOP. Don’t let Paul Ryan and Rubio and Cruz and the Kochs survive, by allowing them to displace Trump and overthrow him!
Trump’s survival as GOP nominee is our best chance to win anti-conservative seats in Congress. And thus: send country club establishment and nuthouse Tea Party conservatism to the margins of policymaking, where they have always belonged; the rich one percent and the millions of hateful, angry American paranoid haters they control. The ones who control OUR Congress, election after election...
For God's sake, help Trump remain the GOP preisdential nominee! Use your brain, use your money, use your belief in your ultimate goals for America— to do the most effective thing you can for those justice goals — and keep the craziest, most ineffectual assholes in control of the GOP nomination. They will LOSE in the general if they are forced to wedge and parse Trump positions through November. No, they won’t lose the asshole true believer seats, but they will lose Senate and congressional seats where voters don’t want a lunatic and his lunatic supporters in the White House.
And that is the referendum that we want. (If we are progresive, we do not a national referendum on socialism. We can't win that!) We want a contest that associates every single Republican candidate, with a person who is undoubtedly an asshole, a flaming asshole. We want a referendum election that associates every single conservative Republican: with a stupid, conservative talk radio-hating asshole—or makes that conservative Republican disown their own voters’ agenda, the asshole’s agenda. THAT SPLITS THEM, that marginalizes THE HATERS WHO WIN THE MIDTERMS.
This week, and until he becomes any kind of real threat to Hillary—give Trump whatever he needs to stay as Republican nominee. You won’t be sorry. Because when he dies at the polls in November and brings down the conservatve House with him: we win, it’s Obama’s first term again. As progressives, we battle against conservatives who have an insanely disproportionate influence on the day to day policy debate. We can’t get real reform until conservatives are extinct, marginalized: a bunch of well-funded nuts, noise at the edge, rattling around in a bag...like in the American forties, or fifties...
But that won’t happen, until Dems and progressives can reliably control Congress again. For the sake of humankind: please do whatever you can (money, phone calls, email, tweets) — to keep that flaming, hateful asshole as the standard bearer for the GOP.