Sen Sheldon Whitehouse wrecking Rs

Sheldon Whitehouse
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Maybe Think About It This Way: Is our problem that the far right has declared war on normal America, and set up a war machine to accomplish that goal, and Democrats aren’t even set up to detect and defend against that war machine?

Thought experiment: What if Churchill had been a Democrat in those darkest hours? Surely Churchill-the-Democrat would have gone out and commiserated with Londoners whose homes had been blown up by buzz bombs. As he did.

Surely Churchill-the-Democrat would have pushed Parliament for an infrastructure program to help Londoners rebuild after the bombing. For sure we’d do that.

But would Churchill-the-Democrat have built a command center deep under the streets of London? (Hint: Democrats don’t have one against the far-right war machine.)

Would there have been radar along the English coast detecting and identifying incoming attacks? (Hint: we don’t have that; we usually wait until attacks by the far-right war machine land, and then complain about them. We count on reporters to do the work.)

Would there be Spitfires in the sky, bravely fighting to win the Battle of Britain, with so many ultimately owing so much to so few? (Hint: nowhere in our Democratic ecosystem is there any place devoted to counterattacking the far-right war machine, by real-time exposing and discrediting it.)

Would the Ruhr Valley have been lit up at night by Mosquito bombing raids to disrupt the weapons manufacture supplying the attacks on England? (Hint: Democrats don’t even have institutional awareness of where/how far-right smears, self-serving theories, and propaganda are produced and beta-tested — let alone exposing them.)

If our current Party effort presents the example of what Churchill-the-Democrat would have done, there’d have been no war room, no radar, no Spitfires, no Mosquito raids. How would that have worked? And we wonder why we lose.

Replying to @PolitiBunny
Did he just compare the political efforts of the Democratic Party to the actual Battle of Britain? The hubris is stunning. I just threw up in my mouth a little.