In which I play devil's advocate

His picture is next to "inspirational" in the dictionary

Quinnipiac released a poll yesterday showing virtually every Democrat beating Donald Trump in 2020, which, after watching polls for well over forty years now I take with a grain of salt.  Yes, I'd rather be in our position than theirs, but trust me, unless the economy collapses (in which case Trump is dead meat) it will tighten considerably in the next 17 months.

So I found it interesting that Markos Moulitas from The Daily Kos noted that since all of our candidates can beat Trump, we should feel free to vote for who we think would be the best candidate and not who is most likely to defeat Trump.  Yesterday, Digby posted that while voting for a candidate who can beat Trump is fine, it would be a great "insurance policy" in having a candidate that fires up the base.

While I don't disagree with either of them, I do think it's more than just choosing a candidate we like or an insurance policy--frankly, I believe it's utterly vital that we elect a candidate who will inspire the base because truthfully, Donald Trump or no, while people may very well vote for the Democratic nominee, we also need people to donate to, knock on doors for, volunteer for campaigns, and talk to their undecided friends and colleagues about our candidate and "He/She can beat Donald Trump" isn't nearly as inspiring as a candidate who shares the Democratic vision for America that so many of us aspire to.

And this is why I'll keep beating the drum against Joe Biden.  Because we all knew full well--even if it was a longshot--that Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton in 2020 (it's an election for Christ's sake) but still there were plenty of Democrats who stayed home and plenty who voted third party.  I've seen far too many uninspiring Democrats (Jimmy Carter in 1980, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry) lead us to defeat and we cannot allow that to happen in 2020.  Donald Trump must be stopped.

Give us a candidate to believe in and we'll show up.  If not, it's going to be a roll of the dice.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee