Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 | 2 a.m.
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I find myself to be in the minority in today’s national Democratic Party. I disagree with the tendency of most Democrats — including political candidates for Congress and those in the news media — to constantly bash President Donald Trump over his obnoxious personality and divisive comments.
As the conservative “Morning Joe” Scarborough has said on his MSNBC show, when Democrats talk negatively about Trump, it just makes his supporters angrier and more protective of him, while corroborating their paranoid belief that Democrats and the liberal part of the media are out to get Trump.
Rather, as Scarborough suggests, Democrats need to focus on communicating their values and telling the people that the federal government can be a force for good in our country that can make life better for all Americans.
Democrats don’t seem to realize that most Americans agree with them that we need to protect safety-net programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, college student loans and unemployment insurance benefits.
These are winning issues that we should constantly be talking about instead of trashing Trump.
