Dear John,
I keep hearing that the Democratic primary is coming down to someone who’s "electable" versus someone who has "ideas." This is pure nonsense. Beating Donald Trump requires getting out the vote. And in order to get people to turn out and vote, a presidential candidate has to be inspiring.
Today the real contest is between the people and the powerful — the vast majority of Americans versus an oligarchy that’s amassed most of the nation’s wealth and power. The oligarchy would rather we fight among ourselves for the scraps they’ve left behind than see what’s really happening. Divide and conquer: Middle class against poor, white against black, native-born American against immigrant, Christian against Muslim. That way we don’t see that they’ve been looting America.
Don’t be fooled. This primary is not a contest between electability and ideas.
Our new video explains why big ideas are essential in order to be electable.
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Don’t accept false choices about who’s electable versus who has ideas, who’s moderate versus who’s on the left, or whether we need to go back to the way it was before Trump.
In reality, what’s going to beat Trump are new ideas that mobilize America, that let Americans see what the wealthy and powerful who bankroll Trump have done to this nation, and get us looking forward to what America should be rather than backward to an America that was never as good as it could be.
Thanks for watching,
Robert Reich
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