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avebury

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16. The Democrats need to take the gloves off and borrow a page out of the Republican
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 08:41 AM
Dec 2016

playbook. What do you think the Republicans would do if the situation was reversed? They would go political napalm/scorched earth at the Democrats. That is what the Democrats need to do. Failure to do so means that we will be stuck with third world banana republic elections from now on.

They need to go after everyone that created fake news stories about Hillary, fought to hide what the Russians were doing from the American people, conducted fraudlent vote counts and so on and make them so toxic they glow. They need to publicly question just how far does Putin's reach go? Members of Congress? Is that why people like McConnell refused to let the American people know the truth about the Russians. While the Democrats are the minority in Congress they need to find a way to hold their own hearings even if they are held off site. If they make a biggest hornets nest of it the MSM will be forced to cover them. They need to publicly examine the issues of Putin/Russia, treason, ethics violations, and what do the Republicans have to hide that makes them so afraid to hold hearings, and so on. If they can pull in some Republicans like Lindsey Graham, all the better.

You can start with a coalition with what Republicans you can pull in and then go scorched earth if that does not work.

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