Democrat 2020

[Montmorency]

I had heard that was his other option. You think he's more likely to head that route then?

I hope so.

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Hear hear.



In other news, this Buzzfeed poll has half of Democrats self-labelling as "socialist" or "democratic socialist". It also finds a quarter of Republicans self-labelling so.

Important caveat: all those polled were Millennials.

If these results are reproducible, it could be good or bad for us.

Positive: The possibility to weaken the Republican base with fiscal liberalism vs. social conservatism.
Negative: Social conservatism wins out and the GOP becomes genuinely representative of its constituency, adopting a Strasserite plank (or worse).

Regardless, very interesting that a quarter of Republican-sorted millennials would count themselves as socialists.