Seth Abramson to Democrats: Can we focus?

[highplainsdem]

Tweeted late last night:

Link to tweet

It's amazing how easy it is to sidetrack Democrats (including me). We have a president who's *dismantling and terrorizing the nation* and we're talking about an imaginary Biden-Booker feud and howling over calls for AOC to apologize for saying a clearly right thing. Can we focus?

[qazplm135]

1. focus on what?

It's a primary. THIS is when you air out your differences and pick a nominee.
It's politics, not a Sunday brunch.
There will be tons of time to focus on Trump once we pick our nominee.
But a bunch of candidates all agreeing on the myriad ways Trump is horrible doesn't help us pick one of them.
The next time a primary doesn't have a hard fight will be the first time.

Folks need to toughen up.
And by folks, I mean Biden supporters.
If your guy can't take this tiny amount of heat, then he's not going to win in 2020.

[zipplewrath]

2. No, no, no

You just don't understand. We're supposed to sit down, shut up, and follow the crowd or Trump winz doncha know.

[empedocles]

4. It is expecting too much, but it would be great if candidates used their policy

prescriptions to show how their candidate Rx is better when contrasted with trump, than other competing candidates.

[qazplm135]

7. again

no it wouldn't.

We are picking a nominee. They need to distinguish amongst EACH OTHER.

This isn't new, and this isn't rocket science.

Hillary went through ten times as worse than Biden is now.

Trump had to weather it during his nomination.

It happens every single time in every single contested primary.

But somehow, this time, it's different. And it seems to be one candidate's supporters who by far do the most whining.

I suspect because they aren't confident in their candidate winning the primary, and they fear their candidate is the only one that can beat Trump, so they are panicking and overreacting to every attack.

[highplainsdem]

6. Abramson wasn't talking about just the primary. If he had been, I'd have posted this OP in the

primaries forum.

And you're wrong in suggesting that we can wait to focus on Trump until after we pick our nominee.

Though Trump and the GOP wold LOVE for us to do that.

[qazplm135]

8. he threw in AOC

but yeah he was talking about the primary, and no I'm not wrong.

Trump sucks moves no balls. It persuades no primary voters.

Now, there certainly needs to be some here's what I would do different if elected, to give curious voters information and persuasion, but there also needs to be, here's why I am the right candidate and why someone else isn't. Happens every time, and folks act like this is the first time ever.

[highplainsdem]

9. I don't think he's acting like this is "the first time ever." Abramson is noting that Trump is

the greatest threat to this country, to our democracy, who's ever been president, and every dispute among Democrats really is trivial compared to that threat.

[qazplm135]

11. no it isn't "trivial"

We have to not just "beat Trump" but what comes AFTER we beat Trump.

so no, these disputes are not "trivial"

They are only "trivial" to you because you want Biden to win, and he's ahead right now, so OF COURSE you want nothing but happy talk because you hope that doesn't change anything.

If Biden were in third or fourth, you'd be quite happy when he inevitably attacked the front runner to try to make a move up.

[highplainsdem]

12. Again, Abramson was NOT talking just about the primaries, but about Democrats getting distracted.

I'm not going to waste any more time on your straw man argument claiming Abramson was saying something he wasn't saying.

[Turin_C3PO]

13. Yes, the differences between Democrats are trivial

compared to the absolute threat of Trump. One reason we have Trump today is because in 2016 Sanders‘ supporters savaged Clinton so badly that she was damaged greatly by the time Bernie finally conceded.

We don’t need a repeat of that.

[qazplm135]

14. Nothing Biden has faced

Has remotely been what Clinton did.

[Turin_C3PO]

15. No, not yet.

And I hope not ever. I don’t care if it’s Biden or Warren or Sanders or whoever, we don’t need them damaged.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. Lol no

That’s not what we do.

[OhZone]

5. Yes, we need to focus on taking Trump down -

and supporting each other, not nitpicky BS.

[Grasswire2]

10. yep

Seth Abramson has deep knowledge of the perfidy/criminality and ambitions of the Trump clan Maybe more than anyone else outside the intel community. Those ambitions are greater than the White House, even. Greater than ruling by fiat.

Dems tearing each other down in the public arena is not useful.