I loath…er..I mean, I love Eric Swalwell
He has stated that Trump is an agent of Putin, and stands by that based on the known facts. But he is also running on the “I’m going to out-Coons Chris Coons” platform. He might be the eventual nominee, so that’s as far as I’ll go, but my sense is that America is not clamouring for a guy who promises to put Republicans in his cabinet and try to talk to the NRA as if they are looking for some common sense compromises.
Every time I read the famed “we just need to talk to them” line I cringe for several reasons. It assumes the Republicans are rational, an unfunded trillion dollar tax cut for the rich begs to differ. It also shows weakness to a merciless enemy, for that is what the Republicans have become. But above all it indicates that person is living in a dream world that never existed, politics remains the substitute for war, and there is no victory in negotiating surrender.
100% ^
Nailed it.