Democrats with a chance to win the nomination would be wise to hold off announcing grandiose spending plans lest Trump use it against them in the general
I 100% agree on this...
The only one I tear down is Bernie because he is not a Democrat
and this...
I think this is going to be Bernie's problem...he's got very few friends and allies in the Democratic party as he's made a career distancing himself from them
Unless he pulls a Trump and changes the whole Democratic establishment...he's never going to get their support
Why is providing for Americans suddenly off the table? Trump's tax cuts have blown up the budget deficit, he's building concentration camps and a stupid wall, and he's jacked up military spending, so he he's suddenly going to be credible on fiscal responsibility.
We can debate whether the government should provide health care or build renewable energy, but it's clear that markets aren't giving us either of those things at the levels we need.
Sure recent Democratic candidates have all been neo-liberal centrists. But they have mixed results. Clinton won twice. Gore and Kerry lost. Obama won twice. Clinton lost. We honestly don't know that a neo-lib would do better than a social democrat because it's been 40 years since one ran on the national level.
