Democrats marshal a strike force to counter Trump on national security in 2018, 2020 elections

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By Anne Gearan February 27 at 5:00 AM

Voters were undeterred by the 2016 cries of alarm from Democrats — and some Republicans — that Donald Trump was unqualified to be commander in chief, but a group of Democrats is betting Trump’s record in office will push national security issues to the fore in the 2018 midterms and the next presidential election.

A group of mostly young veterans of the Barack Obama administration and the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign is launching a national security political strike force aimed at countering Trump and Republicans. “We decided, essentially, this is an emergency moment and that there was a need to pull together the national security community on the progressive side to counter Trump’s policies and put forward an alternative” in this midterm year, said Ben Rhodes, one of the founders.

Leaders of the new group described its mission exclusively to The Washington Post ahead of its debut Tuesday.

Called “National Security Action,” the group is more expressly political than many Democratic-leaning think tanks and policy shops, but it will not endorse candidates or make political donations, Rhodes and others said.

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[zipplewrath]

1. I wonder what that is?

“We decided, essentially, this is an emergency moment and that there was a need to pull together the national security community on the progressive side..."

I'll be curious what that looks like. I've never really detected a consistent national security position that I would label as "progressive".