Send in Trojan Horses. I am serious. Everyone knows that if you praise Trump a lot - it doesn’t matter what your ideology is — you can get his attention in a good way. Looking at Trump’s appointments that are rumored so far, it is a rogues’ gallery. What is common is they comprise of people who have praised this guy. I mean, even a moron like John Bolton is rumored to become his SOS. That would be as disastrous as Bush’s choice of Cheney as his VP. We should still keep attacking the policies. But some Democrats need to be judicious on the personal bashing of Trump. Frame any bashing of his bad moves to bashing of republicans in general and blame them for any of Trump’s moves instead of blaming Trump full scale right away.
The Supreme Court appointment is one of the most dangerous ones. There is no way Trump is going to appoint someone good. The only hope Democrats have is to minimize the damage. Here is where Democrats MAY have an edge over the Republicans. Their first choice is to stall as much as possible and see how long they can avoid someone getting confirmed. Their backup option should be to offer Trump a deal. They will confirm his choice if that choice is his sister — Maryanne Trump Barry. His sister is a moderate conservative. His sister is 79 and has maybe a decade left at most. I don’t know if Trump can resist such an opportunity. This could be the equivalent of getting into Trump’s good graces.
This is all temporary strategy. Once they get the damage mitigated for the Supreme Court appointments, see if they can get his ear on a couple of other appointments via his daughter’s ear and see if they can influence those choices to be not as damaging. For Trump, it’s all about catering to his sycophants and family. Right now, guys like Guiliani has his ear and they can do a A LOT of damage. I mean , why else is a guy like Bolton whose foreign policy is not the same as Trump’s even touted as one of the main guys to be his SOS?
Democrats have compromised on worse things in the past and have humored terrible people in the name of politics. So why change now? It is OK to swallow their pride to see if they influence this moron to make better choices. They should just not make it too obvious by having the whole party do an about face. Send in some feelers via a few key politicians who haven’t burned their bridges with him already. Now if the Democrats can regain control of the Senate, they can resume their full force bashing of this idiot. Until then, they gotta really be sneaky about dealing with him.
Maybe play good cop bad cop. Some Democrats can continue to play the bad cop routine bashing him for all the issues he deserves to be bashed upon. But let’s also be smart and have some sneakily curry his favor. I fear it may be too late to do that now as his inner circle is already being filled up. But the guy is unstable and a classic flake. So there is hope. There is plenty of time to unleash righteous anger on him. That time is not now especially with some of the fears being expressed being so over the top that it may create such a wall between him and us that there is absolutely no chance of influencing him.