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.