I just heard David Axlerod say something close to the above headline on CNN. It reveals a sickness in the bones of the dying Democratic Party.
The strategic calculus of “not getting involved” with issue “Z” because it “might” excite the passions of the excitable lunatics on the right, is just stupid. The excitable lunatics are going to have their passions aroused NO MATTER WHAT. It is what they do.
Read one moronically shrill comment post by Rusty Dils. He is all strung out on Fox News and in a constant state of irrational arousal, just like Trump’s entire 38%.
But who doesn’t get energized while Obama stays on the sidelines? Democrats. The Obama strategy to keep a low profile utterly failed during all of the mid-term elections while he was in office, and it is setting up to fail again.
