Advice to Democrats on How to Troll

Come on folks, this isn't hard.  Republicans understand the value of staying on message and hammering the same point over and over again.  We need to do the same.

Some wise soul commented that the Mueller Report was apt to be perfect for democrats -- bad enough to be highly embarrassing, but not bad enough to compel impeachment.  And so it is.  You should be shouting from the rooftops, repeating all the juiciest, most awkward-but-not-quite-criminal portions of the report and solemnly intoning, "This may not be grounds for impeachment, but it is more than grounds for a primary challenge."

Some wise person commented that the Mueller report was likely to be ideal for Democrats -- not enough to force impeachment, but plenty to embarrass and force Republicans to defend the indefensible.  Or not defend it, which can be equally useful to us.

Think about it, folks.  How did Trump win in 2016?  And don't say with the help of the Russians.  What more than anything else did the Russians (and Wikileaks) do to swing the election for Trump?  They kept the Democrats divided.  They kept us relitigating the primary.  They kept Bernie Sanders followers all riled up, convinced that Clinton had stolen the primary and ready to defect to the Green Party rather than vote for Hillary.

We need to do the same. 

When Mitt Romney -- or any other Republican, for that matter -- criticizes Trump's conduct, praise him/her to the skies and urge him/her to mount a primary challenge.  Yes, granted, the Republican will almost certainly back down, intimidated by fear of his/her own primary challenge or, worse, Trump not appointing any more judges.  But it turns Trump's venom on his fellow Republicans.

So long as Republicans see an impeachment challenge in the works they will all unite to defend their leader from the Democrat and argue with at least some plausibility that anything not rising to the level of an actual, indictable crime, does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.

But is you keep talk of a primary challenge circulating, Republicans will be forced to explain why Trump's conduct is not only not impeachable, but not even primary-able.  Say it often enough and the talking heads will see no choice but to ask Republicans whether they think Trump's conduct is worth a primary challenge.  Watch them squirm trying to answer!

It should be entertaining.