A Big Challenge

President Trump has raised over 30 million for his re-election. The supporters donate on line every time the presidency is challenged.

The problem with the election in 2020 is that Trump already has a message and it is working in a large part of the right wing and independent voters: America First!

Such a simple message is absolutely what works in today's Twitter world. The tweet length messages are easy to respond to and force a gut feel response in voters. A feeling of support for those threatened by "foreigners" or whatever Trump has come up with. And  a feel of hate for those that are the target (blacks, minorities) or those voters who support groups Trump and his folk absolutely hate.

I would not be too focused on what the voters can be given (healthcare, education, jobs etc) but go full force in some kind of  TRUMP IS EVIL message. Never mind that Republicans are offended by coarse  language. They will never vote for a Democrat anyway. Convey in simple terms that he is a hateful asshole.

If the Democrats are running a woman, I have to say that Hillary will be the one best equipped to challenge his every act and word. It will be easy for Trump to just label her "Loser Hillary." But she could just go full force on Trump supporters this time. Something like Trump weekly attacking "the Democrats":

But let’s focus more on Trump, less on his voters. The basket of deplorables. We Democrats may have some quite close by. If the candidate is another woman, I would get a male VP partner. The woman candidate can focus on the working classes that were ignored last time. They want simple things: jobs and healthcare. Do not offer them community college as a solution. You only have four years to help them. A raised minimum wage will work well. Their children can be offered the education. Then, with the caring candidate, you add a man VP candidate whose job is to go after Trump daily in the most clever and quick witted response and basically to be the attack dog.

I'll just offer a simple slogan: Vote for (Democrat), we care! Trump does not care about you.

Foreigners

We foreigners have been coming to America for decades. We don't go on welfare for the most part. Immigrants tend to be slightly better at whatever job or career they have than the corresponding American applicants. This is because there is a hurdle to get in, other than for refugees.

Rural people and towns in the middle of the country have mostly Latino immigrants. They do the low wage jobs related to crops and the food industry.

These are all the (red) counties that went for Trump in the election. Many people before the election had no particular view of immigrants. Muslims had been singled out for 9-11, other than that, most rural people had little idea of immigrants in California or New York.

Immigrants are not on welfare. If they take your jobs, then most often they were in fact qualified for the job. We train foreign born scientists and engineers here, as Americans just want "nice" jobs or very high paying jobs. But jobs that are not in say the chemical industry.

Taking welfare now disqualifies you from moving on to citizenship. Getting arrested gets you deported. There is absolutely no basis for the Trump claim that foreigners are a danger and are second class citizens. Are they in gangs? Yes, but so are Americans in those low income areas where gangs operate. Often it takes a generation for the poorest least educated refugees to move up in society.

Reagan famously launched a libertarian era by saying that government (other than the military) is mostly bad. The military was needed, to fight communism of course

Trump has expanded on that, as well as made foreigners scapegoats. It started with:


"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best; they're not sending you," Trump said. "They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."

November election is coming. If you are an immigrant and can vote, it is your duty to vote the racist GOP out of office.

Healthcare and Trump

Mr Trump has not delivered on healthcare. Insurance plans are run through Medica (middle and North  US only), Bluecross, United Healthcare etc. The plans in healthcare.gov are run according to the Obamacare requirements. No pre-existing conditions rules etc.

Trump's op-ed seems to be just throwing confusion at seniors (likely to vote Republican anyway), scaring them with any change to Medicare, death panels etc etc. The death panels never killed anyone, they (or the people making decisions) were there to prevent spending needlessly on patients that were beyond help. if you are going to die, the system should make it as easy as possible to die at home, not in a hospital bed hooked up to monitors.

Trump seems to offer choice. The choice is cheap plans, essentially the same plans Medica, Bluecross, United Healtcare etc. offer in Obamacare but now with strings attached. Do you want to cover pregnancy? Contraceptives? Normal things are excluded. It is called Short Term insurance. The only plus they offer is cheaper premiums. But the legal fine print in those plans is so complicated that you may not get any healthcare at all. Most of them deny anyone with any "condition" any plan at all. You had surgery once years ago? No plan for you.

The reason any of this is brought up at all is there is a mid term election. THERE IS NO PLAN. It is all pure Trump team propaganda. The system IS rigged. It is rigged against you the consumer.